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Add Unaccent Support in PostgreSQL Search
PostgreSQL has a some pretty useful NLP search capabilities out of the box. However, PostgreSQL search backends will only load the character set native to the language you've set your backend to use. Accented words on an English site won't be searchable with unaccented terms for example.
I show a quick way to load the full extended character set into a custom backend and take you through how to verify that the search is indexing and returning results as desired from the command prompt. Finally, I'll use the custom backend for my Wagtail site search to return pages with unaccented queries.
I show a quick way to load the full extended character set into a custom backend and take you through how to verify that the search is indexing and returning results as desired from the command prompt. Finally, I'll use the custom backend for my Wagtail site search to return pages with unaccented queries.
2023-01-08 00:01:22 UTC