> What I'd like to know is if there is an easy to way to use the full
> text index to generate a list of the most common words. I could write
> this code manually, but I'm hoping there's a better (simpler) way.
For 8.3
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/textsearch-features.html#TEXTSEARCH-STATISTICS
For versions before 8.3 just use stat() function instead of ts_stat().
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