Text-search ranking is customisable[0] and results vary wildly based on the ranking behaviours selected and the weights assigned to different labels. It takes a

Text-search ranking is customisable[0] and results vary wildly based on the ranking behaviours selected and the weights assigned to different labels. It takes a bit of fine tuning and with the wrong parameters for your data set, you can definitely get results that seem unintuitive. This should be a concern to the author, but there's no reason to think the search ranking is not working as documented. [0] http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/textsearch-controls.html#TEXTSEARCH-RANKING http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/textsearch-control...