I created a FTS index: CREATE INDEX clients_fts ON clients USING gist( to_tsvector( 'english', name) ) I can do FTS queries like: SELECT * FROM clients WHERE to_tsvector('english',name) @@ to_tsquery( 'english','somestring'); But if I want to query just part of the string return set is empty: SELECT * FROM clients WHERE to_tsvector('english',name) @@ to_tsquery( 'english','somes'); returns no results. Is it that postgresql doesn't support substring queries or have I missed something. I can not find anything on the net. Postgresql is v8.3.1. by TheR