From: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
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To: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Teodor Sigaev <teodor(at)sigaev(dot)ru> |
Subject: | Re: tsearch in core patch, for inclusion |
Date: | 2007-01-24 18:53:54 |
Message-ID: | 45B7AB42.6070803@dunslane.net |
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>
>> Teodor Sigaev wrote:
>>
>>> If there aren't objections then we plan commit patch tomorrow or
>>> after tomorrow.
>>>
>> I still haven't heard any argument for why this would be necessary or
>> desirable at all, other than that it looks better for marketing
>> reasons, which I will counter by saying that it looks worse for
>> marketing reasons because our hailed plugin mechanism is apparently so
>> poor that it can't support some practical extension module such as
>> this.
>>
>
> Of which I will counter that we don't have a hailed plugin mechanism. We
> have a contrib which professionals generally consider untested and not
> part of PostgreSQL.
>
> I am constantly running into this:
>
> Q. Does PostgreSQL have full text indexing?
> A. Yes it is in contrib.
> Q. But that isn't part of core.
> A. *sigh*
>
> Where on the website can I see what "plugins" are included with PostgreSQL?
>
> Where on the website can I see the Official PostgreSQL Documentation for
> Full Text Indexing?
>
> With TSearch2 in core will that fix the many upgrade problems associated
> with using TSearch2?
>
>
>
contrib is a horrible misnomer. Can we maybe bite the bullet and call it
something else?
cheers
andrew
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