## Chapter 12. Full Text Search

**Table of Contents**

[12.1. Introduction](textsearch-intro.html)

[12.1.1. What Is a Document?](textsearch-intro.html#TEXTSEARCH-DOCUMENT)

[12.1.2. Basic Text Matching](textsearch-intro.html#TEXTSEARCH-MATCHING)

[12.1.3. Configurations](textsearch-intro.html#TEXTSEARCH-INTRO-CONFIGURATIONS)

[12.2. Tables and Indexes](textsearch-tables.html)

[12.2.1. Searching a Table](textsearch-tables.html#TEXTSEARCH-TABLES-SEARCH)

[12.2.2. Creating Indexes](textsearch-tables.html#TEXTSEARCH-TABLES-INDEX)

[12.3. Controlling Text Search](textsearch-controls.html)

[12.3.1. Parsing Documents](textsearch-controls.html#TEXTSEARCH-PARSING-DOCUMENTS)

[12.3.2. Parsing Queries](textsearch-controls.html#TEXTSEARCH-PARSING-QUERIES)

[12.3.3. Ranking Search Results](textsearch-controls.html#TEXTSEARCH-RANKING)

[12.3.4. Highlighting Results](textsearch-controls.html#TEXTSEARCH-HEADLINE)

[12.4. Additional Features](textsearch-features.html)

[12.4.1. Manipulating Documents](textsearch-features.html#TEXTSEARCH-MANIPULATE-TSVECTOR)

[12.4.2. Manipulating Queries](textsearch-features.html#TEXTSEARCH-MANIPULATE-TSQUERY)

[12.4.3. Triggers for Automatic Updates](textsearch-features.html#TEXTSEARCH-UPDATE-TRIGGERS)

[12.4.4. Gathering Document Statistics](textsearch-features.html#TEXTSEARCH-STATISTICS)

[12.5. Parsers](textsearch-parsers.html)

[12.6. Dictionaries](textsearch-dictionaries.html)

[12.6.1. Stop Words](textsearch-dictionaries.html#TEXTSEARCH-STOPWORDS)

[12.6.2. Simple Dictionary](textsearch-dictionaries.html#TEXTSEARCH-SIMPLE-DICTIONARY)

[12.6.3. Synonym Dictionary](textsearch-dictionaries.html#TEXTSEARCH-SYNONYM-DICTIONARY)

[12.6.4. Thesaurus Dictionary](textsearch-dictionaries.html#TEXTSEARCH-THESAURUS)

[12.6.5. Ispell Dictionary](textsearch-dictionaries.html#TEXTSEARCH-ISPELL-DICTIONARY)

[12.6.6. Snowball Dictionary](textsearch-dictionaries.html#TEXTSEARCH-SNOWBALL-DICTIONARY)

[12.7. Configuration Example](textsearch-configuration.html)

[12.8. Testing and Debugging Text Search](textsearch-debugging.html)

[12.8.1. Configuration Testing](textsearch-debugging.html#TEXTSEARCH-CONFIGURATION-TESTING)

[12.8.2. Parser Testing](textsearch-debugging.html#TEXTSEARCH-PARSER-TESTING)

[12.8.3. Dictionary Testing](textsearch-debugging.html#TEXTSEARCH-DICTIONARY-TESTING)

[12.9. GIN and GiST Index Types](textsearch-indexes.html)

[12.10. psql Support](textsearch-psql.html)

[12.11. Limitations](textsearch-limitations.html)

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