I love Postgres and mostly agree, but there’s one caveat: Postgres’s full text indexing is better than most non-Lucene options, but it’s still a toy compared to

I love Postgres and mostly agree, but there’s one caveat: Postgres’s full text indexing is better than most non-Lucene options, but it’s still a toy compared to anything using Lucene (eg ElasticSearch). If you need to support indexed search of documents, especially multi-language corpora, you need to use the right tool for the job and Postgres isn’t it.