Strange result for full text query

[Johann Spies <johann.spies@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have a record with this in the 'ti'  field:

On type A and type B uncertainties and its propagation without
derivatives: a contribution to incorporate contemporary metrology to
Physics' laboratories in higher education

And there is a tsv-field which is updated by the following trigger function:


CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION isi.update_ritem_tsv()
  RETURNS trigger AS
$BODY$

  begin

  new.tsv :=  to_tsvector(coalesce(new.ti,'')) || to_tsvector(coalesce(new.ab,''));

  return new;

  end
$BODY$
  LANGUAGE plpgsql VOLATILE
  COST 100;
ALTER FUNCTION isi.update_ritem_tsv()
  OWNER TO crest;


and tsv contains the following for this record:

"'activ':129 'altern':73,94 'assumpt':62 'b':6,39 'concept':28,122
'contemporari':17 'contribut':14 'deriv':12,91 'discuss':42
'earliest':127 'educ':24,133 'estim':76 'evalu':34 'experiment':128
'explicit':87 'express':54 'goal':65 'guid':51 'higher':23,132
'incorpor':16 'input':82 'introduc':26,71 'introduct':119
'laboratori':21,135 'law':44,106 'main':64 'measur':58
'metrolog':18,121 'output':84 'paper':68 'partial':90 'perceiv':114
'perform':130 'physic':20,134 'possibl':112 'procedur':32,74,95,124
'propag':10,46,79,108 'quantiti':85 'refer':88 'relat':97 'share':100
'simpl':98 'type':2,5,35,38 'uncertainti':7,30,40,48,56,77 'under':61
'valid':103 'valu':116 'without':11,86"

When I use the query

select ut, ti
from isi.ritem A
where
A.tsv @@ to_tsquery('Simple','higher & education')

The result is zero.

But then I use

A.tsv @@ to_tsquery('Simple','higher & educ')

I get more than 54000 records as result.

and with

A.tsv @@ to_tsquery('Simple','education')

I get 19 records containing words like Educatione, educationism, Education etc.

That makes me think the full text search is probably not very reliable.  Why this results?

Regards
Johann

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