PostgreSQL’s powerful full text search feature supports several query syntaxes. Of these, a website search feature should typically pick the websearch syntax. websearch copies some features from popular search engines, as covered below, offering familiar short syntax to users. It is also forgiving and will never raise a syntax error for user input, whilst other syntaxes can.

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PostgreSQL's powerful full text search feature supports the websearch syntax, which is forgiving and user-friendly. It allows individual word matching, double-quoted phrase matching, OR conditions, and negating matching. This post explains the syntax and how to use it in queries. It also mentions the integration of websearch in Django.

PostgreSQL: Full text search with the “websearch” syntax