Tin: full-text search for Postgres
Introducing TIN: full-text search for PostgresEric Ridge, Patrick Reynolds | September 16, 2026One of the Postgres features our customers ask us for the most is full-text search. Today, we are excited to announce TIN: a fast, full-featured, reliable full-text search extension for Postgres. TIN stands for "Text INdex," and that is what it does.TIN is available immediately as a GA release for all Postgres and Neki databases.
- ▪Introducing TIN: full-text search for PostgresEric Ridge, Patrick Reynolds | September 16, 2026One of the Postgres features our customers ask us for the most is full-text search.
- ▪Today, we are excited to announce TIN: a fast, full-featured, reliable full-text search extension for Postgres.
- ▪TIN stands for "Text INdex," and that is what it does.TIN is available immediately as a GA release for all Postgres and Neki databases.
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| Original publisher | Planetscale |
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| Publication time | Sat, 19 Sep 2026 13:52:06 +0000 |
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Introducing TIN: full-text search for PostgresEric Ridge, Patrick Reynolds | September 16, 2026One of the Postgres features our customers ask us for the most is full-text search. Today, we are excited to announce TIN: a fast, full-featured, reliable full-text search extension for Postgres. TIN stands for "Text INdex," and that is what it does.TIN is available immediately as a GA release for all Postgres and Neki databases. Check it out:CREATE INDEX an_index_name ON table_name USING tin(text_column_name); SELECT * FROM table_name WHERE text_column_name ==> 'some words'; We built TIN because we believe a good text index should support:Boolean expressions, phrase queries, and span queriesFuzzy, wildcard, and regular-expression matching for termsCase and accent foldingCOUNT(*) queries and…
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