1. What is the advantage of the tsearch2() trigger? Why can't I write my own trigger which does approximately: UPDATE manuscript set manuscript_vector = setweight(to_tsvector(manuscript_genre), 'A') || setweight(to_tsvector(manuscript_title), 'B') || to_tsvector(manuscript_abstract); 2. Is there a way to know in advance the maximum return value of the rank function? I have lots of other information to include in the goodness-of-match score besides the fulltext match rank so I would prefer a tsearch2 rank score between 0 and 1. Do I need to write my own rank function? -- Make April 15 just another day, visit http://fairtax.org