Re: Should phraseto_tsquery('simple', 'blue blue') @@ to_tsvector('simple', 'blue') be true ? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Hmm, couldn't the loop logic be simplified a great deal if this is the
>> definition?  Or are you leaving it like that with the idea that we might
>> later introduce another operator with the less-than-or-equal behavior?

> Do you suggest something like merge join of two sorted lists? ie:
> ...
> Such algorithm finds closest pair of (Lpos, Rpos) but satisfying pair could be 
> not closest, example: to_tsvector('simple', '1 2 1 2') @@ '1 <3> 2';

Oh ... the indexes in the lists don't have much to do with the distances,
do they.  OK, maybe it's not quite as easy as I was thinking.  I'm
okay with the patch as presented.
        regards, tom lane