Finding ‘Abbey Road’ When Users Type ‘beatles abbey rd’ - Fuzzy and Semantic Search in PostgreSQL
Summary
The article demonstrates how to implement both fuzzy text matching and semantic search in PostgreSQL using pg_trgm and pgvector to match messy user queries against a music catalog. It provides a practical workflow with dataset setup, normalization, indexing, and a Hybrid search strategy that combines fast fuzzy matching with embedding-based semantic similarity.