8 Jan 2022, 20:09 by j...@tuta.io:
> Hi,
>
> I am using Postgres' full text search since some time now and overall it's
> working really well for me. However one issue I have is that ts_headline
> highlights partial matches of FOLLOWED BY (<->) expressions, e.g.
>
> SELECT ts_headline('some words and some more words',
> to_tsquery('some<->words'));
>
> gives
>
> <b>some</b> <b>words</b> and <b>some</b> more <b>words</b>
>
> while I expect
>
> <b>some words</b> and some more words
>
> I think the highlights of partial matches is in most cases not useful and
> confusing to end users, they may think the search did not recognize they
> requested the words to be consecutive. Google also does not highlight partial
> matches it seems.
>
> I suspect to implement this would require substantial changes to ts_headline
> since it seems to treat the lexemes independently, but it would be a big
> improvement and should be the default behaviour.
>
> Best regards,
> Jake N
>
PS I found this issue brought up here
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/69512416/is-ts-headline-intended-to-highlight-non-matching-parts-of-the-query-which-it
but the real issue was not recognised is seems
