extensions/views/public.py

@@ -129,8 +129,9 @@ class SearchView(ListedExtensionsView):
     def postgres_fts(self, queryset, search_query):
         """Postgres full text search (fast) and a fuzzy trigram search (slow) as a fallback.
 
-        Searches Extension name and description only. If we need to extend the functionality,
-        it's better to consider using a different approach, e.g. introduce meilisearch.
+        Searches Extension name and description only, ranking name matches higher.
+        If we need to extend the functionality, it's better to consider using a different approach,
+        e.g. introduce meilisearch.
 
         Limits the results size to 32 items (2 pages), assuming that nobody will click through many
         pages if we failed to present the vital results on the first page.
@@ -150,6 +151,10 @@ class SearchView(ListedExtensionsView):
                     (to_tsvector('english', name) || ' ' || to_tsvector('english', description))
                     @@ websearch_to_tsquery('english', %(query)s)
                 ) and is_listed
+                order by ts_rank(
+                    to_tsvector('english', name),
+                    websearch_to_tsquery('english', %(query)s)
+                ) desc
                 limit 32"""
             cursor.execute(sql, {'query': search_query})
             pks = [row[0] for row in cursor.fetchall()]