CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION search_imdb_meta(search_term TEXT, category_param TEXT DEFAULT NULL, year_param TEXT DEFAULT NULL, limit_param INT DEFAULT 10) RETURNS TABLE(imdb_id character varying(16), title character varying(1000),category character varying(50),year character varying(10), score REAL) AS $$ BEGIN RETURN QUERY SELECT imdb_metadata.imdb_id, imdb_metadata.title, imdb_metadata.category, imdb_metadata.year, similarity(imdb_metadata.title, search_term) as score FROM imdb_metadata WHERE (imdb_metadata.title % search_term) AND (imdb_metadata.adult = FALSE) AND (category_param IS NULL OR imdb_metadata.category = category_param) AND (year_param IS NULL OR imdb_metadata.year = year_param) ORDER BY score DESC LIMIT limit_param; END; $$ LANGUAGE plpgsql;