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From: Tiger Data via PostgreSQL Announce <[email protected]>
To: PostgreSQL Announce <[email protected]>
Subject: pg_textsearch v1.0
Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2026 09:02:14 +0000
Message-ID: <177520693494.3221092.12102497042130744894@wrigleys.postgresql.org> (raw)

Hi folks,

I'm delighted to announce the general availability of pg_textsearch v1.0. This is an open source extension (Postgres license) supporting modern BM25 ranked keyword search with fast indexing and state-of-the-art query performance:

[https://github.com/timescale/pg_textsearch](https://github.com/timescale/pg_textsearch)

In the blog post accompanying today's launch, I describe the extension's motivation, architecture, and benchmark results on large scale IR datasets. These demonstrate substantial performance advantages vs ParadeDB, which has a much more restrictive license (AGPL):

[https://www.tigerdata.com/blog/pg-textsearch-bm25-full-text-search-postgres](https://www.tigerdata.com/blog/pg-textsearch-bm25-full-text-search-postgres)

Thanks,

TJ

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