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The current limitations of <span class="productname">PostgreSQL</span>'s
text search features are:
</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist compact" style="list-style-type: bullet; "><li class="listitem" style="list-style-type: disc"><p>The length of each lexeme must be less than 2 kilobytes</p></li><li class="listitem" style="list-style-type: disc"><p>The length of a <code class="type">tsvector</code> (lexemes + positions) must be
less than 1 megabyte</p></li><li class="listitem" style="list-style-type: disc"><p>The number of lexemes must be less than
2<sup>64</sup></p></li><li class="listitem" style="list-style-type: disc"><p>Position values in <code class="type">tsvector</code> must be greater than 0 and
no more than 16,383</p></li><li class="listitem" style="list-style-type: disc"><p>The match distance in a <code class="literal"><<em class="replaceable"><code>N</code></em>></code>
(FOLLOWED BY) <code class="type">tsquery</code> operator cannot be more than
16,384</p></li><li class="listitem" style="list-style-type: disc"><p>No more than 256 positions per lexeme</p></li><li class="listitem" style="list-style-type: disc"><p>The number of nodes (lexemes + operators) in a <code class="type">tsquery</code>
must be less than 32,768</p></li></ul></div><p>
</p><p>
For comparison, the <span class="productname">PostgreSQL</span> 8.1 documentation
contained 10,441 unique words, a total of 335,420 words, and the most
frequent word <span class="quote">“<span class="quote">postgresql</span>”</span> was mentioned 6,127 times in 655
documents.
</p><p>
Another example — the <span class="productname">PostgreSQL</span> mailing
list archives contained 910,989 unique words with 57,491,343 lexemes in
461,020 messages.
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