"Thomas H." <me@alternize.com> writes: > i saw my mistake. i misinterpreted the examples to show the possibility > to convert *any* text by using casting to tsvector as an alternative to > using to_tsvector :) Yeah, the examples in section 12.1.2 are not actually good practice: both sides of the match should usually get normalized before comparison, and these examples don't do that. 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. Thoughts anyone? regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster