This plugin implements a full text search operator for tsvector columns in PostGraphile v4 via @mattbretl's excellent postgraphile-plugin-connection-filter plugin.

postgraphile --append-plugins postgraphile-plugin-connection-filter,postgraphile-plugin-fulltext-filter

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const express = require('express');
const { postgraphile } = require('postgraphile');
const PostGraphileConnectionFilterPlugin = require('postgraphile-plugin-connection-filter');
const PostGraphileFulltextFilterPlugin = require('postgraphile-plugin-fulltext-filter');

const app = express();

app.use(
  postgraphile(pgConfig, schema, {
    appendPlugins: [
      PostGraphileConnectionFilterPlugin,
      PostGraphileFulltextFilterPlugin,
    ],
  })
);

app.listen(5000);

All tsvector columns that aren't @omit'd should have indexes on them:

ALTER TABLE posts ADD COLUMN full_text tsvector;
CREATE INDEX full_text_idx ON posts USING gin(full_text);

This plugin adds the matches filter operator to the filter plugin, accepting a GraphQL String input and using the @@ operator to perform full-text searches on tsvector columns.

This plugin uses pg-tsquery to parse the user input to prevent Postgres throwing on bad user input unnecessarily.

For each tsvector column, a rank column will be automatically added to the GraphQL type for the table by appending Rank to the end of the column's name. For example, a column full_text will appear as fullText in the GraphQL type, and a second column, fullTextRank will be added to the type as a Float.

This rank field can be used for ordering and is automatically added to the orderBy enum for the table.

query {
  allPosts(
    filter: {
      fullText: { matches: 'foo -bar' }
    }
    orderBy: FULL_TEXT_RANK_DESC
  }) {
    ...
    fullTextRank
  }
}