feat(migrations): Add materialized view & index for full text search

Adds a materialized view to be used for full-text searches that
indexes the tsvector documents for each post.

2 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/migrations/2018-04-14-170750_search-index/down.sql b/migrations/2018-04-14-170750_search-index/down.sql
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+DROP INDEX idx_fts_search;
+DROP MATERIALIZED VIEW search_index;
diff --git a/migrations/2018-04-14-170750_search-index/up.sql b/migrations/2018-04-14-170750_search-index/up.sql
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+-- Prepare a materialised view containing the tsvector data for all
+-- threads and posts. This view is indexed using a GIN-index to enable
+-- performant full-text searches.
+--
+-- For now the query language is hardcoded to be English.
+
+CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW search_index AS
+  SELECT p.id AS post_id,
+         p.author_name AS author,
+         t.id AS thread_id,
+         t.title AS title,
+         p.body AS body,
+         setweight(to_tsvector('english', t.title), 'A') ||
+         setweight(to_tsvector('english', p.body), 'B') ||
+         setweight(to_tsvector('simple', t.author_name), 'C') ||
+         setweight(to_tsvector('simple', p.author_name), 'C') AS document
+    FROM posts p
+    JOIN threads t
+    ON t.id = p.thread_id;
+
+CREATE INDEX idx_fts_search ON search_index USING gin(document);