Re: removing tsearch2

From: "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)justatheory(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)berkus(dot)org>, Cynthia Shang <cynthia(dot)shang(at)crunchydata(dot)com>, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)bluetreble(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, Vladimir Rusinov <vrusinov(at)google(dot)com>, Daniel Verite <daniel(at)manitou-mail(dot)org>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>
Subject: Re: removing tsearch2
Date: 2017-02-27 21:00:20
Message-ID: 0DC90ADC-B4F7-4215-BD46-9D702EC85A79@justatheory.com
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On Feb 27, 2017, at 12:04 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:

> Just stating the obvious, but one of the reasons CPAN works so well is
> that most of the modules are written in Perl and hence don't need
> per-platform compilation.

There are a *lot* of C-baded modules on CPAN; and my guess is that, more often than not, Perl modules depend on other C-based modules.

I daresay a lot of PostgreSQL extensions can be written in pure SQL or PL/pgSQL.

Best,

David

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