On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 19:14 -0500, John Smith wrote: > guys, > how'd i make this query work? > select headline(select column_1 from table_1 where to_tsvector > (column_1) @@ to_tsquery('ftp'),'ftp'::tsquery); > ERROR: syntax error at or near "select" at character 17 > After taking a closer look, why don't you just write it simply like: select headline(column_1,'ftp'::tsquery) from table_1 where to_tsvector (column_1) @@ to_tsquery('ftp'); If you do it as a subquery, the subquery can't return multiple values, and it looks like you expect it to. Jeff Davis