That sounds perfect, but it doesn't seem to exist on either of the postgresql installations I have access to (8.1 on ubuntu and fedora core). Is it new to 8.2? Is there a similar function under 8.1, or at least a decent work-around? Thanks for the help, Doug On 1/15/07, Teodor Sigaev <teodor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > contrib_regression=# select numnode( plainto_tsquery('the any') ); > NOTICE: query contains only stopword(s) or doesn't contain lexeme(s), ignored > numnode > --------- > 0 > (1 row) > > contrib_regression=# select numnode( plainto_tsquery('the table') ); > numnode > --------- > 1 > (1 row) > > contrib_regression=# select numnode( plainto_tsquery('long table') ); > numnode > --------- > 3 > (1 row) > > > -- > Teodor Sigaev E-mail: teodor@xxxxxxxxx > WWW: http://www.sigaev.ru/