From b0c02fc81f7fc90c71a905f22c20259f7fef65ce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tayeb Chlyah <tayebchlyah@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2026 13:03:40 +0400
Subject: [PATCH] feat(server) #3: sort search results by updated date then
 score

---
 server/modules/search/db/engine.js       | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 server/modules/search/postgres/engine.js | 14 ++++++++------
 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/server/modules/search/db/engine.js b/server/modules/search/db/engine.js
index 04cb4280..1207d233 100644
--- a/server/modules/search/db/engine.js
+++ b/server/modules/search/db/engine.js
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ module.exports = {
    * @param {Object} opts Additional options
    */
   async query(q, opts) {
+    const normalizedQuery = q.toLowerCase()
     const results = await WIKI.models.pages.query()
       .column('pages.id', 'title', 'description', 'path', 'localeCode as locale')
       .withGraphJoined('tags') // Adding page tags since they can be used to check resource access permissions
@@ -46,6 +47,21 @@ module.exports = {
           }
         })
       })
+      .orderBy('pages.updatedAt', 'desc')
+      .orderByRaw(`
+        CASE
+          WHEN LOWER(title) = ? THEN 400
+          WHEN LOWER(title) LIKE ? THEN 300
+          WHEN LOWER(description) LIKE ? THEN 200
+          WHEN LOWER(path) LIKE ? THEN 100
+          ELSE 0
+        END DESC
+      `, [
+        normalizedQuery,
+        `%${normalizedQuery}%`,
+        `%${normalizedQuery}%`,
+        `%${normalizedQuery}%`
+      ])
       .limit(WIKI.config.search.maxHits)
     return {
       results,
diff --git a/server/modules/search/postgres/engine.js b/server/modules/search/postgres/engine.js
index ffff750e..65658dfe 100644
--- a/server/modules/search/postgres/engine.js
+++ b/server/modules/search/postgres/engine.js
@@ -62,19 +62,21 @@ module.exports = {
     try {
       let suggestions = []
       let qry = `
-        SELECT id, path, locale, title, description, content
-        FROM "pagesVector", to_tsquery(?,?) query
-        WHERE (query @@ "tokens" OR path ILIKE ?)
+        SELECT pv.id, pv.path, pv.locale, pv.title, pv.description, pv.content
+        FROM "pagesVector" pv
+        INNER JOIN "pages" p ON p.path = pv.path AND p."localeCode" = pv.locale
+        CROSS JOIN to_tsquery(?,?) query
+        WHERE (query @@ pv.tokens OR pv.path ILIKE ?)
       `
-      let qryEnd = `ORDER BY ts_rank(tokens, query) DESC`
+      let qryEnd = `ORDER BY p."updatedAt" DESC, ts_rank(pv.tokens, query) DESC`
       let qryParams = [this.config.dictLanguage, tsquery(q), `%${q.toLowerCase()}%`]
 
       if (opts.locale) {
-        qry = `${qry} AND locale = ?`
+        qry = `${qry} AND pv.locale = ?`
         qryParams.push(opts.locale)
       }
       if (opts.path) {
-        qry = `${qry} AND path ILIKE ?`
+        qry = `${qry} AND pv.path ILIKE ?`
         qryParams.push(`%${opts.path}`)
       }
       const results = await WIKI.models.knex.raw(`