Saying postgres is "good enough" acknowledges that elastic search is "better" but based on minimum viable product requirements may not be necessary. It's a fai

Saying postgres is "good enough" acknowledges that elastic search is "better" but based on minimum viable product requirements may not be necessary. It's a fair point that is mostly valid when approaching a deadline on a fixed bid contract. Given enough sprints, the search engine will eventually be run by an external service. +1 for the Google Custom Search suggestion. If SEO matters to the problem domain, might as well leverage those carefully indexed documents.