Matt Layman • 2/14/2017

PostgreSQL text search in Django

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This article details the implementation of a search feature for a college database using Django and PostgreSQL. It compares two text search methods: trigram similarity (for fuzzy matching) and full text search, explaining why the latter was chosen for handling multi-word college names effectively, including code snippets and the reasoning behind the final approach.

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