Re: TSearch still in contrib?

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: TSearch still in contrib?
Date: 2005-01-03 19:10:52
Message-ID: 41D998BC.8020205@commandprompt.com
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Robert Treat wrote:
> On Friday 31 December 2004 14:37, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>Is there any reason why TSearch (not TSearch2) is still in
>>contrib? TSearch is a 7.3.x module...
>>
>
>
> I believe it was left in for backwards compatibility and afaik it still builds
> in the 8.0 tree. If you'd like to make the argument that 8.0 is a good time
> to remove it go ahead. The first couple lines of README.tsearch might help:
> "This module is deprecated in 7.4 version of PostgreSQL and will be
> obsoleted in 8.0. Please, use new tsearch2 contrib module."

Compiling and working are different things :). To be fair I haven't
tested TSearch on 8.0 but since it is considered outdated... perhaps we
should remove it.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

>

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