PlanetScale introduces Tin, a full-text search solution for PostgreSQL designed to offer improved search capabilities beyond Postgres's built-in tsvector/tsquery. The announcement is generating notable interest on Hacker News with 179 points and 70 comments.
Background
PostgreSQL's built-in full-text search (tsvector/tsquery) has limitations in relevance ranking, multilingual support, and fuzzy matching. The demand for better search capabilities in Postgres has led to various third-party extensions like Tsearch2 and ZomboDB.
- Source
- Hacker News (RSS)
- Published
- Sep 19, 2026 at 09:52 PM
- Score
- 7.0 / 10