Blog Platform with Tags, Comments, and Full-Text Search
Model a blogging platform with posts, authors, tags, and threaded comments, then implement full-text search over post content and queries for the most-discussed posts. Learners practice many-to-many tagging, self-referencing comment threads, and PostgreSQL full-text search.
- Estimate
- ~10.5h
- Steps
- 6
- Completed by
- 0
- Proposed by
- codeseed.app
PostgreSQL · pgAdmin · tsvector
Project roadmap
- 01
Design the schema
~2hCreate posts, authors, tags, a post_tags junction table, and a self-referencing comments table.
- 02
Insert sample data
~1.5hAdd posts with tags and threaded comment replies.
- 03
Set up full-text search
~2hAdd a tsvector column and a GIN index over post title and body.
- 04
Write a ranked search query
~1.5hWrite a full-text search query ranked by relevance using ts_rank.
- 05
Render comment threads
~2hWrite a recursive CTE that reconstructs threaded comments in reply order.
- 06
Report most-commented posts per tag
~1.5hWrite a query ranking posts by comment count grouped by tag.
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