From: | Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Call for objections: removing contrib/rserv for 8.0 |
Date: | 2004-08-23 01:30:35 |
Message-ID: | 412948BB.6040600@familyhealth.com.au |
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>>>Although plans for a more general cleanup of contrib/ will have to go
>>>back on the shelf for a future release, the core committee is still of
>>>the opinion that it'd be wise to remove rserv in 8.0.
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>>Also we really should probably rip out Tsearch (not Tsearc2) as well.
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> Eventually yes, but I'm not too concerned about it misleading people,
> since the competition (tsearch2) is right there beside it. The contrib
> tree needs a thorough going over to eliminate deadwood, but during beta
> is probably not the time to undertake that project.
Tsearch is 100% different to tsearch2 in every way, and converting old
tsearch stuff to tsearch2 is non-trivial and involved a LOT of changes -
I suggest leaving it there. It took a significant amount of work for us
to change over our ~ 20 tsearch indexes to tsearch2 at my work.
Chris
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