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The token length filter automatically removes tokens that are above or below a certain length in bytes. To remove all tokens longer than a certain length, append a remove_long configuration to the tokenizer: 
CREATE INDEX search_idx ON mock_items
USING bm25 (id, (description::pdb.simple('remove_long=100')))
WITH (key_field='id');
To remove all tokens shorter than a length, use remove_short: 
CREATE INDEX search_idx ON mock_items
USING bm25 (id, (description::pdb.simple('remove_short=3')))
WITH (key_field='id');
All tokenizers besides the literal tokenizer accept these configurations. To demonstrate this token filter, let’s compare the output of the following two statements: 
SELECT
  'A supersupersuperlong token'::pdb.simple::text[],
  'A supersupersuperlong token'::pdb.simple('remove_short=2', 'remove_long=10')::text[];
Expected Response
             text              |  text
-------------------------------+---------
 {a,supersupersuperlong,token} | {token}
(1 row)
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