Tom Lane wrote: > It should work if you explicitly change the column's type to > pg_catalog.tsvector. (There's a fix in place for 8.3.2, also.) Which would probably be not such a good idea to try on a 7GB table in production, I think. Or is there some way hacking the system catalog to correct the type instead of an ALTER TABLE ... ALTER COLUMN TYPE? Kind regards Markus Computec Media AG Sitz der Gesellschaft und Registergericht: Fürth (HRB 8818) Vorstandsmitglieder: Johannes S. Gözalan (Vorsitzender) und Rainer Rosenbusch Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Jürg Marquard Umsatzsteuer-Identifikationsnummer: DE 812 575 276