Hi, It's nice that we have plainto_tsquery in addition to to_tsquery because it's syntax is closer to what end users are used to (more like Google search syntax with it's implicit "AND"). plainto_tsquery however "cannot recognize either Boolean operators or weight labels" (see: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/textsearch-controls.html#TEXTSEARCH-PARSING-QUERIES). I wonder if anyone knows an open source project that created a piece of code that parses any user input and converts it into proper query syntax for to_tsquery (or returns an error message if no proper query can be contructed). Thanks! Rudolph