The following bug has been logged on the website:
Bug reference: 16235
Logged by: Dominik Giger
Email address: dominik.giger@gmail.com
PostgreSQL version: 12.1
Operating system: Linux
Description:
The following query shows the problem:
select ts_rank(doc1, query) as rank_wrong, ts_rank(doc2, query) as
rank_correct
from (select setweight(to_tsvector('simple', 'foo something'), 'A') ||
setweight(to_tsvector('simple', 'foobar'), 'C') as doc1,
setweight(to_tsvector('simple', 'foo something'), 'A') as
doc2,
to_tsquery('simple', 'foo:* & something') as
query) as subquery;
Some more explanation:
doc1 looks like this:
'foo':1A 'foobar':3C 'something':2A
doc2 looks like this:
'foo':1A 'something':2A
Calling ts_rank on both vectors with the same query
'foo':* & 'something'
Expected result:
ts_rank on doc1 is the same or higher than ts_rank on doc2.
Actual result:
ts_rank on doc1 is only half of the rank of doc2. ts_rank seems to only
consider the 'foobar' term with lower weight when calculating the rank. The
foo:1A is only considered in doc2.
