user interface to GiST indices - Mailing list pgsql-general

on the hackers list, there has been mention that GiST indices are
available as of 7.1 as a partial implementation of full text indexing.
unfortunately, i haven't seen any mention of GiST in the CREATE INDEX
docs, and there is no mention of full text indexing anywhere else in the
docs.

i'm just wondering if there is any way to approximate full text
searching as of postgres 7.1.

thanks!

-tfo