The pg_trgm Extension
Explore how to use the pg_trgm extension in PostgreSQL to improve fuzzy search capabilities and typo correction. This lesson helps you enable and apply trigram-based similarity functions for faster and more accurate string matching in your database queries.
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Some popular search engines are capable of adding helpful bits of information that depend directly on your search phrase. Both “autocorrect” and “did you mean?” are part of the basics of a search engine user experience nowadays.
PostgreSQL implements several fuzzy string matching approaches, and one of them, in particular, is suitable for implementing suggestions to search strings, provided that you’re searching in a known catalog of items.