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authorBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2023-11-13 16:35:55 -0500
committerBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2023-11-13 16:35:55 -0500
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doc: clarify handling of ts_headline() operators & extra words
Reported-by: Ngigi Waithaka & Alex Malek Bug: 15172 Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/152461454026.19805.6310947081647212894@wrigleys.postgresql.org Backpatch-through: 16
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@@ -1287,7 +1287,10 @@ ts_headline(<optional> <replaceable class="parameter">config</replaceable> <type
<para>
<function>ts_headline</function> accepts a document along
with a query, and returns an excerpt from
- the document in which terms from the query are highlighted. The
+ the document in which terms from the query are highlighted.
+ Specifically, the function will use the query to select relevant
+ text fragments, and then highlight all words that appear in the query,
+ even if those word positions do not match the query's restrictions. The
configuration to be used to parse the document can be specified by
<replaceable>config</replaceable>; if <replaceable>config</replaceable>
is omitted, the