>> I'm not sure that putting in to_tsvector calls there would be an >> improvement, though, since at that point we haven't introduced >> to_tsvector.
Uh ... wait a moment ... stop the presses. Thomas is looking at beta1 documentation. CVS HEAD handles this a bit better I think: http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/textsearch-intro.html#TEXTSEARCH-MATCHING So the first thing is to go bug the www team about updating the online 8.3beta docs, which I shall do forthwith. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend