On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 05:31:02PM -0700, Ottavio Campana wrote: > Hi, I'm trying to use tsearch2 for the first time and I'm having a > problem setting up a query > > If I execute > > SELECT * from test_table where ts_desc @@ to_tsquery ('hello&world'); > > it works, but I'm having the problem that the string used for the query > is not 'hello&world' but 'hello world', Moreover, it can have an > arbitrary number of spaces between the words, so I cannot just > substitute the spaces with &, because 'hello&&world' gives error. > > What is the safest way transform a string into a list of works "anded" > together? Look at plainto_tsquery(). //Magnus