How to convert tsvector? - postgresql

Question

A typical and relevant application of tsvectot is to query and summarize information about the set of occurred words and about its frequency... And JSONB is the natural choice (!) to represent tsvectot datatype for these "querying applications"... So,
There are a simple workaround to cast tsvector into JSONB?
Example: counting global frequency of words of a cached tsvectot's, will be something like this query
SELECT r.key as word, SUM(r.value) as occurrences
FROM (
SELECT jsonb_each(kx_tsvectot::jsonb) as r FROM terms
) t
GROUP BY 1;

Answer 1

You can use ts_stat() function, which will give you exactly what you need
word text — the value of a lexeme
ndoc integer — number of documents (tsvectors) the word occurred in
nentry integer — total number of occurrences of the word
Example may be the following:
CREATE TABLE t (
tsv TSVECTOR
);
INSERT INTO t VALUES
('word'::TSVECTOR),
('second word'::TSVECTOR),
('third word'::TSVECTOR);
SELECT * FROM
ts_stat('SELECT tsv FROM t');
Result:
word | ndoc | nentry
--------+------+--------
word | 3 | 3
third | 1 | 1
second | 1 | 1
(3 rows)
If you still want to convert it to jsonb you can use cast word from text to jsonb.