Re: turning a tsvector without position in a weighted tsvector

On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 23:01:45 +0300 (MSK)
Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su> wrote:

> Ivan,
>
> what's wrong with:
>
> postgres=# select 'abc:1'::tsvector;
> tsvector
> ----------
> 'abc':1

Yes you're right. I think I misplaced some quotes.
But still, once a vector has no position, I can't add the weights.

test=# select setweight('tano'::tsvector, 'A');
setweight
-----------
'tano'
(1 row)

test=# select setweight('tano:1'::tsvector, 'A');
setweight
-----------
'tano':1A
(1 row)

Since I'm writing some helper to manipulate tsvectors I was
wondering if
a) there is any reasonable use case of adding weights to
vectors with no position
b) I missed any obvious way to add weights to tsvectors that were
initially without positions

thanks

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