Adding full-text search to Postgres is a two-line migration. Running it in production without surprises is not. The GIN index that makes search fast also adds write amplification and a background cleanup process that can quietly fall behind under a heavy insert rate, and "relevance" that looked fine on your laptop can drift the day someone changes a dictionary. Before you decide Postgres search is or isn't enough, you need evidence — a load test against your real write rate and a relevance contr...