Hi Amit, Thanks for your answer. My issue is that I still need a ranking like the similarity when comparing trigrams. I'm working on a similarity search, which determindes similiar sentences from my table. The usual similarity search with Trigrams and a gist bzw. gin index is to slow with my set of rows. So I've built an Fixed Query Array. I took some sentences as pivots and calculated the distance between them and all my sentences. Now I can search for similiar sentences by calculating their distance to my pivots and comparing them with the distances I already got. I noticed that it's a good way to use trigrams as metric distance function. So the issue is that I have to take certain trigrams as pivots and of cource I need to store an exact ranking when comparing. Your method detect the rows which includes all of the trigrams you are searching for, but I still need a ranking... something like SELECT similarity('How are your', "{" ho","how","are","re "," hi","wha","hat","at "," a"}"::trgm); I hope you have an idea Janek Sendrowski -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general