25th July 2020
TIL
PostgreSQL full-text search in the Django Admin
— Django 3.1 introduces PostgreSQL `search_type="websearch"` - which gives you search with advanced operators like `"phrase search" -excluding`. James Turk [wrote about this here](https://jamesturk.net/posts/websearch-in-django-31/), and it's also in [my weeknotes](https://simonwillison.net/2020/Jul/23/datasette-copyable-datasette-insert-api/).
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