Bug in the documentation - to_tsquery( 'postgres:*' );
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Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/index.html
Description:
There is a bug in the documentation on the link
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/datatype-textsearch.html
postgres does not get stemmed to postgr by :to_tsquery( 'postgres:*' );
and
SELECT to_tsvector( 'postgraduate' ) @@ to_tsquery( 'postgres:*' );
returns f.
I am using PostgreSQL 12.14 but the documentation for PostgreSQL 12 is not
correct either.
Here is the output from my system:
SELECT to_tsvector( 'postgraduate' ), to_tsquery( 'postgres:*' );
to_tsvector | to_tsquery
------------------+--------------
'postgraduate':1 | 'postgres':*
(1 row)
So the below mentioned citation seems to be wrong.
Citation:
Note that to_tsquery will process prefixes in the same way as other words,
which means this comparison returns true:
SELECT to_tsvector( 'postgraduate' ) @@ to_tsquery( 'postgres:*' );
?column?
----------
t
because postgres gets stemmed to postgr:
SELECT to_tsvector( 'postgraduate' ), to_tsquery( 'postgres:*' );
to_tsvector | to_tsquery
---------------+------------
'postgradu':1 | 'postgr':*
which will match the stemmed form of postgraduate.
Maybe the documentation could say that it is assumed that the database
is configured with
default_text_search_config = 'english'
in the configuration file.
In case of my distribution, the parameter was set to 'pg_catalog.simple'.
/etc/postgresql/<version>/main/postgresql.conf
default_text_search_config = 'pg_catalog.simple'
Jiri
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On Wed, Apr 05, 2023 at 08:27:28AM +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/index.html
Description:There is a bug in the documentation on the link
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/datatype-textsearch.htmlpostgres does not get stemmed to postgr by :to_tsquery( 'postgres:*' );
and
SELECT to_tsvector( 'postgraduate' ) @@ to_tsquery( 'postgres:*' );
returns f.I am using PostgreSQL 12.14 but the documentation for PostgreSQL 12 is not
correct either.
Here is the output from my system:
SELECT to_tsvector( 'postgraduate' ), to_tsquery( 'postgres:*' );
to_tsvector | to_tsquery
------------------+--------------
'postgraduate':1 | 'postgres':*
(1 row)So the below mentioned citation seems to be wrong.
Citation:
Note that to_tsquery will process prefixes in the same way as other words,
which means this comparison returns true:SELECT to_tsvector( 'postgraduate' ) @@ to_tsquery( 'postgres:*' );
?column?
----------
tbecause postgres gets stemmed to postgr:
SELECT to_tsvector( 'postgraduate' ), to_tsquery( 'postgres:*' );
to_tsvector | to_tsquery
---------------+------------
'postgradu':1 | 'postgr':*which will match the stemmed form of postgraduate.