[maverwa]

I remember achieving some quite good results when implementing a simple „fuzzyesque“ search for some B2B e-commerce system a few years back, but what hit us hard was the german dictionary used for stemming for the ts_vector index. The original one coming with psql did not support german compound words correctly and the „fix“ was to import a 3rd party one. I learned the hard ways that this comes at the cost of Postgres loading the dictionary every time a new connection uses the index. Running a simple, small php app that could not reuse/pool connections, every search query done was coming in on a clean connection and hit a >1s fee for having to load the dict.

iirc pgbouncer saved the day there.

Otherwise it worked fine.