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I have been put off by Elasticsearch's complexity a number of times. Can I ask why with searching a limited about of text you didn't juse use Postgres' full-text search?

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I'm not the person you're replying to, but does Postgres nowadays have a straightforward way to do tf-idf or BM25-style information retrieval?

Not op but not that I know of.

I commented below - I highly recommend Xapian for small projects to test the waters. It’s the SQLite if search.

Or you could use the FTS extension of SQLite. https://sqlite.org/fts3.html

I was new to Python, Django and Postgres. I was looking up how to do search and stumbled on articles how to use Elasticsearch in Django. So I went with it.

Should you find yourself there again I recommend Django Haystack and Xapian.

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