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Commit 53449458 authored by Tom Lane's avatar Tom Lane
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Avoid saying "random" when randomness is not actually meant.

Per Thom Brown.
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<title>Data Definition</title>
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is fixed, and each column has a name. The number of rows is
variable &mdash; it reflects how much data is stored at a given moment.
SQL does not make any guarantees about the order of the rows in a
table. When a table is read, the rows will appear in random order,
table. When a table is read, the rows will appear in an unspecified order,
unless sorting is explicitly requested. This is covered in <xref
linkend="queries">. Furthermore, SQL does not assign unique
identifiers to rows, so it is possible to have several completely
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<chapter id="textsearch">
<title>Full Text Search</title>
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(<productname>PostgreSQL</productname> does this automatically when needed.)
GiST indexes are lossy because each document is represented in the
index by a fixed-length signature. The signature is generated by hashing
each word into a random bit in an n-bit string, with all these bits OR-ed
each word into a single bit in an n-bit string, with all these bits OR-ed
together to produce an n-bit document signature. When two words hash to
the same bit position there will be a false match. If all words in
the query have matches (real or false) then the table row must be
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