diff --git a/src/Database/DisposableFullTextSearch.php b/src/Database/DisposableFullTextSearch.php
index fb8ce900d5..5ef8adebd2 100644
--- a/src/Database/DisposableFullTextSearch.php
+++ b/src/Database/DisposableFullTextSearch.php
@@ -37,12 +37,17 @@ class DisposableFullTextSearch
 	{
 		$this->db = $database;
 
+		// Unique identifier generation. Two DisposableFullTextSearch object should never have the same as the first object destruction
+		// would delete both check-full-text-search rows before the second object destruction is called, leading to unexpected behavior.
 		do {
-			// Unique identifier generation. Two DisposableFullTextSearch object should never have the same as the first object destruction
-			// would delete both check-full-text-search rows before the second object destruction is called, leading to unexpected behavior.
 			// Maximum value is indicated by the INT UNSIGNED type of the check-full-text-search.pid field
 			$this->identifier = random_int(0, pow(2, 32) - 1);
-		} while($this->db->insert('check-full-text-search', ['pid' => $this->identifier, 'searchtext' => $haystack]));
+		} while($this->db->exists('check-full-text-search', ['pid' => $this->identifier, 'searchtext' => $haystack]));
+
+		// If the `exists()` call fails and return false because the database is unavailable, the `insert()` call will likely fail as well, which means
+		// all subsequent calls to `match()` will return false because the haystack won't have been inserted.
+		// However, at this point there may be bigger problems to worry about.
+		$this->db->insert('check-full-text-search', ['pid' => $this->identifier, 'searchtext' => $haystack]);
 	}
 
 	public function __destruct()