PostgreSQL Full-Text Search for Multi-Script Video Metadata

PostgreSQL Full-Text Search for Multi-Script Video Metadata TrendVidStream aggregates trending video content from 8 regions spanning the UAE (Arabic), Nordic countries (Danish, Finnish), and Central Europe (Czech, Belgian French/Dutch). Each region brings different script requirements to full-text search — and PostgreSQL handles most of them well. Here's what I learned building FTS for a multi-region, multi-script video platform. Setting Up Weighted tsvectors For video metadata, titles matter more than descriptions. PostgreSQL's weight system (A through D) lets you encode this in the index: CREATE TABLE videos ( id BIGSERIAL PRIMARY KEY , video_id TEXT UNIQUE NOT NULL , title TEXT NOT NULL , channel_title TEXT , description TEXT , region TEXT NOT NULL , category_id INTEGER , view_count BIGINT DEFAULT 0 , language TEXT , -- 'ar', 'da', 'fi', 'cs', 'nl', 'fr', 'en' published_at TIMESTAMPTZ , fetched_at TIMESTAMPTZ DEFAULT now (), -- Weighted vector: title (A) > channel (B) > description