Yesterday I finally swapped the engine in the database for my blog posts in vanderwal.net and my lab project for adding search now can search 3 letter words.
With 35+ years working with SQL flavored databases I'm always cautious, but added a bit more caution than usual. Dang it was simple and no issues.
The vanderwal.net Lab search of my blog is at: https://lab.vanderwal.net/search_page.php should you want to try.
Next step: Add headers to very old blog posts and add the permalink to the search results.