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FUNCTIONS / TEXT SEARCH FUNCTIONS AND OPERATORS

ts_delete

Read PG 18 manual ↗

Removes any occurrence of the given lexeme from the vector.

Signatures & examples

ts_delete ( vector tsvector, lexeme text ) → tsvector
Removes any occurrence of the given lexeme from the vector. The lexeme string is treated as a lexeme as-is, without further processing.
ts_delete('fat:2,4 cat:3 rat:5A'::tsvector, 'fat') → 'cat':3 'rat':5A
ts_delete ( vector tsvector, lexemes text[] ) → tsvector
Removes any occurrences of the lexemes in lexemes from the vector. The strings in lexemes are taken as lexemes as-is, without further processing. Strings that do not match any lexeme in vector are ignored.
ts_delete('fat:2,4 cat:3 rat:5A'::tsvector, ARRAY['fat','rat']) → 'cat':3
Version history 3
  1. PG 14 → 15changed
  2. PG 12 → 13changed
  3. PG 9.5 → 9.6added

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