Brilliant! Thank you!
> In tsearch2, I would like to use the "simple" dictionary along with my > own list of stopwords. > [...] sure, just specify dict_initoption. For example, test=# update pg_ts_dict set dict_initoption='contrib/english.stop' where dict_name='simple'; UPDATE 1 test=# select lexize('simple', 'the'); lexize -------- {} (1 row)