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From Heikki Linnakangas
Subject Limitation on number of positions (tsearch)
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Why is there a limitation of 256 positions per lexeme in a tsvector?
There doesn't seem to be a technical reason for that. WordEntryPosVector
uses a uint16 to store the number of positions, so it go up to 65535.

--  Heikki Linnakangas EnterpriseDB   http://www.enterprisedb.com

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