="LITERAL"
>a</TT
> and <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>the</TT
>, so it is
    useless to store them in an index.  However, stop words do affect the
    positions in <TT
CLASS="TYPE"
>tsvector</TT
>, which in turn affect ranking:

</P><PRE
CLASS="SCREEN"
>SELECT to_tsvector('english','in the list of stop words');
        to_tsvector
----------------------------
 'list':3 'stop':5 'word':6</PRE
><P>

    The missing positions 1,2,4 are because of stop words.  Ranks
    calculated for documents with and without stop wo