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I'm not convinced that you can magically improve search on those 'tail' sites. Postgres' full text search is nontrivial to set up and use, even if you have som
by justin_vanw 12y ago
I'm not convinced that you can magically improve search on those 'tail' sites. Postgres' full text search is nontrivial to set up and use, even if you have some SQL experience. I've done substantial work on text search in the past, and I still have trouble following the docs for FTS. The interface is cumbersome at best.
Finally, if search on a site is especially bad, probably the people that made it can't do better, or don't care. I would suspect that most of them are in the "can't do better" camp. One of the not-so-surprising things I have learned about these sorts of programmers is, they don't spend any time reading up on programming related topics, so they'll never see blog posts like this!
- dayone 12y agoElasticsearch is much more cumbersome to setup. I think Postgres' wins in relative ease of setting up.
- threeseed 12y agoNo it isn't. DEB/RPM package install and you're pretty much done.
- grey-area 12y agoPostgres' full text search is nontrivial to set up and use, even if you have some SQL experience. Seemed pretty straightforward to me.