pg_textsearch v1.0

Posted on 2026-04-03 by Tiger Data
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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

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

Thanks,

TJ