Brilliant! Thank you!
> > In tsearch2, I would like to use the "simple" dictionary along with my
> > own list of stopwords.
> > [...]
>
> sure, just specify dict_initoption. For example,
> test=# update pg_ts_dict set dict_initoption='contrib/english.stop' where dict_name='simple';
> UPDATE 1
> test=# select lexize('simple', 'the');
> lexize
> --------
> {}
> (1 row)