Bug in the documentation - to_tsquery( 'postgres:*' );

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Subject: Bug in the documentation - to_tsquery( 'postgres:*' );
Date: 2023-04-05 08:27:28
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There is a bug in the documentation on the link
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/datatype-textsearch.html

postgres does not get stemmed to postgr by :to_tsquery( 'postgres:*' );
and
SELECT to_tsvector( 'postgraduate' ) @@ to_tsquery( 'postgres:*' );
returns f.

I am using PostgreSQL 12.14 but the documentation for PostgreSQL 12 is not
correct either.
Here is the output from my system:
SELECT to_tsvector( 'postgraduate' ), to_tsquery( 'postgres:*' );
to_tsvector | to_tsquery
------------------+--------------
'postgraduate':1 | 'postgres':*
(1 row)

So the below mentioned citation seems to be wrong.

Citation:

Note that to_tsquery will process prefixes in the same way as other words,
which means this comparison returns true:

SELECT to_tsvector( 'postgraduate' ) @@ to_tsquery( 'postgres:*' );
?column?
----------
t

because postgres gets stemmed to postgr:

SELECT to_tsvector( 'postgraduate' ), to_tsquery( 'postgres:*' );
to_tsvector | to_tsquery
---------------+------------
'postgradu':1 | 'postgr':*

which will match the stemmed form of postgraduate.

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