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12.11. Limitations

12.11. Limitations
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The current limitations of PostgreSQL 's text search features are:

  • The length of each lexeme must be less than 2 kilobytes

  • The length of a tsvector (lexemes + positions) must be less than 1 megabyte

  • The number of lexemes must be less than 2 64

  • Position values in tsvector must be greater than 0 and no more than 16,383

  • The match distance in a < N > (FOLLOWED BY) tsquery operator cannot be more than 16,384

  • No more than 256 positions per lexeme

  • The number of nodes (lexemes + operators) in a tsquery must be less than 32,768

For comparison, the PostgreSQL 8.1 documentation contained 10,441 unique words, a total of 335,420 words, and the most frequent word " postgresql " was mentioned 6,127 times in 655 documents.

Another example - the PostgreSQL mailing list archives contained 910,989 unique words with 57,491,343 lexemes in 461,020 messages.

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