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Search-as-you-type for 54 Million Names: PostgreSQL + Django...
DjangoCon US 2026 · October 26, 2026
Searching for human names in large datasets is harder than it looks. A user searches for "Smith, John," but the database contains "Smyth, Jon" or "Smithe, Johnny." Standard LIKE queries are too strict, full-text search doesn't handle name nuances well, and unindexed fuzzy matching won't…