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Enable "Fuzzy" Search #49

Open monicabritton opened 6 years ago

monicabritton commented 6 years ago

When searching for Labs, users (and other things) it would be useful for the search to be somewhat fuzzy, for reasons we discussed (non-English characters, etc). Perhaps picking up on at least 3 or 4 common characters between the search and the database. (Mike suggests looking at Xapian.)

amschaal commented 6 years ago

Looking at various options. Use of tech like Xapian or SOLR seems a little heavy handed, and may require considerable code changes. Hoping that postgres can provide enough functionality. https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/topics/db/search/

amschaal commented 6 years ago

Seems like this can only be solved with a combination of trigram, full text search, unaccent, and normal icontains filters if relying on Postgres functions. That will make things considerably more complicated and probably slower. More research is needed.