Thread: BUG #17917: to_tsquery syntax error

The following bug has been logged on the website:

Bug reference:      17917
Logged by:          Cyrus Lozano
Email address:      cyloz28@gmail.com
PostgreSQL version: 13.10
Operating system:   Linux - Fedora 38
Description:

select to_tsquery('lowercase', plainto_tsquery('lowercase', 'test')::text ||
':*');

the above query runs successfully in Windows but got an error in Fedora 38:
ERROR: syntax error in tsquery: ":*"

PG Bug reporting form <noreply@postgresql.org> writes:
> select to_tsquery('lowercase', plainto_tsquery('lowercase', 'test')::text ||
> ':*');

> the above query runs successfully in Windows but got an error in Fedora 38:
> ERROR: syntax error in tsquery: ":*"

Works for me, after substituting a text search configuration name that
I had installed:

=# select to_tsquery('english', plainto_tsquery('english', 'test')::text ||
':*');
 to_tsquery 
------------
 'test':*
(1 row)

I think you mistyped something in the Fedora case.  The error message
is pretty clear that what to_tsquery() got was only ':*'.

            regards, tom lane

Hi Tom,

Thanks for checking. I did not notice that somehow, my flyway scripts related to the text search configuration failed,
thusthe error. 

Please disregard this issue and apologies for the inconvenience.

Regards,

Cyrus Lozano

> On 3 May 2023, at 9:46 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> PG Bug reporting form <noreply@postgresql.org> writes:
>> select to_tsquery('lowercase', plainto_tsquery('lowercase', 'test')::text ||
>> ':*');
>
>> the above query runs successfully in Windows but got an error in Fedora 38:
>> ERROR: syntax error in tsquery: ":*"
>
> Works for me, after substituting a text search configuration name that
> I had installed:
>
> =# select to_tsquery('english', plainto_tsquery('english', 'test')::text ||
> ':*');
> to_tsquery
> ------------
> 'test':*
> (1 row)
>
> I think you mistyped something in the Fedora case.  The error message
> is pretty clear that what to_tsquery() got was only ':*'.
>
>            regards, tom lane