Re: Documentation bug in 8.3?

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
>     clamped to 16383. Duplicate position entries are discarded.
>                       ----------------------------------------

> However in my testing of 8.3 duplicate position entries are not
> discarded:

>     test=> SELECT 'a:1 b:1'::tsvector;
>       tsvector
>     -------------
>      'a':1 'b':1
>     (1 row)

Those aren't duplicates, because they're not attached to the same
lexeme.  The comment is talking about this behavior:

regression=# SELECT 'a:1 a:1'::tsvector;
 tsvector
----------
 'a':1
(1 row)

regression=# SELECT 'a:1,2,1'::tsvector;
 tsvector
----------
 'a':1,2
(1 row)

            regards, tom lane