diff --git a/phpBB/includes/search/fulltext_postgres.php b/phpBB/includes/search/fulltext_postgres.php
index f5d9b3c760..b33def9462 100644
--- a/phpBB/includes/search/fulltext_postgres.php
+++ b/phpBB/includes/search/fulltext_postgres.php
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@ class phpbb_search_fulltext_postgres extends phpbb_search_base
 	var $search_query;
 	var $tsearch_query;
 	var $common_words = array();
-	var $pcre_properties = false;
 	var $tsearch_usable = false;
 
 	public function __construct(&$error)
@@ -37,11 +36,6 @@ class phpbb_search_fulltext_postgres extends phpbb_search_base
 
 		$this->word_length = array('min' => $config['fulltext_postgres_min_word_len'], 'max' => $config['fulltext_postgres_max_word_len']);
 
-		// PHP may not be linked with the bundled PCRE lib and instead with an older version
-		if (phpbb_pcre_utf8_support())
-		{
-			$this->pcre_properties = true;
-		}
 
 		if ($db->sql_layer == 'postgres')
 		{
@@ -784,10 +778,12 @@ class phpbb_search_fulltext_postgres extends phpbb_search_base
 	{
 		global $user, $config, $db;
 
+		$pgsql_version = explode(',', substr($db->sql_server_info(), 10));
+
 		$tpl = '
 		<dl>
-			<dt><label>' . $user->lang['FULLTEXT_POSTGRES_PCRE'] . '</label><br /><span>' . $user->lang['FULLTEXT_POSTGRES_PCRE_EXPLAIN'] . '</span></dt>
-			<dd>' . (($this->pcre_properties) ? $user->lang['YES'] : $user->lang['NO']) . ' (PHP ' . PHP_VERSION . ')</dd>
+			<dt><label>' . $user->lang['FULLTEXT_POSTGRES_VERSION_CHECK'] . '</label><br /><span>' . $user->lang['FULLTEXT_POSTGRES_VERSION_CHECK_EXPLAIN'] . '</span></dt>
+			<dd>' . (($this->tsearch_usable) ? $user->lang['YES'] : $user->lang['NO']) . ' (PostgreSQL ' . $pgsql_version[0] . ')</dd>
 		</dl>
 		<dl>
 			<dt><label>' . $user->lang['FULLTEXT_POSTGRES_TS_NAME'] . '</label><br /><span>' . $user->lang['FULLTEXT_POSTGRES_TS_NAME_EXPLAIN'] . '</span></dt>
diff --git a/phpBB/language/en/acp/search.php b/phpBB/language/en/acp/search.php
index 736a3049a8..be147a78de 100644
--- a/phpBB/language/en/acp/search.php
+++ b/phpBB/language/en/acp/search.php
@@ -64,11 +64,11 @@ $lang = array_merge($lang, array(
 	'FULLTEXT_POSTGRES_INCOMPATIBLE_VERSION'	=> 'The PostgreSQL fulltext backend can only be used with PostgreSQL.',
 	'FULLTEXT_POSTGRES_TS_NOT_USABLE'	=> 'The PostgreSQL fulltext backend can only be used with PostgreSQL 8.3 and above.',
 	'FULLTEXT_POSTGRES_TOTAL_POSTS'			=> 'Total number of indexed posts',
-	'FULLTEXT_POSTGRES_PCRE'					=> 'Support for non-latin UTF-8 characters using PCRE:',
+	'FULLTEXT_POSTGRES_VERSION_CHECK'		=> 'PostgreSQL version',
 	'FULLTEXT_POSTGRES_TS_NAME'				=> 'Text search Configuration Profile:',
 	'FULLTEXT_POSTGRES_MIN_WORD_LEN'			=> 'Minimum word length for keywords',
 	'FULLTEXT_POSTGRES_MAX_WORD_LEN'			=> 'Maximum word length for keywords',
-	'FULLTEXT_POSTGRES_PCRE_EXPLAIN'			=> 'This search backend requires PCRE unicode character properties, only available in PHP 4.4, 5.1 and above, if you want to search for non-latin characters.',
+	'FULLTEXT_POSTGRES_VERSION_CHECK_EXPLAIN'		=> 'This search backend requires PostgreSQL version 8.3 and above.',
 	'FULLTEXT_POSTGRES_TS_NAME_EXPLAIN'				=> 'The Text search configuration profile used to determine the parser and dictionary.',
 	'FULLTEXT_POSTGRES_MIN_WORD_LEN_EXPLAIN'			=> 'Words with at least this many characters will be included in the query to the database.',
 	'FULLTEXT_POSTGRES_MAX_WORD_LEN_EXPLAIN'			=> 'Words with no more than this many characters will be included in the query to the database.',