Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Hmm, couldn't the loop logic be simplified a great deal if this is the
>> definition? Or are you leaving it like that with the idea that we might
>> later introduce another operator with the less-than-or-equal behavior?
> Do you suggest something like merge join of two sorted lists? ie:
> ...
> Such algorithm finds closest pair of (Lpos, Rpos) but satisfying pair could be
> not closest, example: to_tsvector('simple', '1 2 1 2') @@ '1 <3> 2';
Oh ... the indexes in the lists don't have much to do with the distances,
do they. OK, maybe it's not quite as easy as I was thinking. I'm
okay with the patch as presented.
regards, tom lane