Re: tsearch2: Error: Word is too long

On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 psql-mail@freeuk.com wrote:

> I tried to index my data with tsearch2 but I get the following error:
>
> Error: Word is too long
>
> I have looked through the docs and googled for "Word is too long" +
> tsearch2 with no luck - so i hope i haven't missed something obvious.
>
> The problem is due to binary encodings in the data, base64 etc.
>
> Can i supply a max word length somewhere?
> and how can I find out what the max limit is?
>
> Thanks!
>

Max word length is 2Kb. Unfortunately there is no simple way to redefine it.
Other problem is why do you need to index base64 ?

>

    Regards,
        Oleg
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