Re: removing tsearch2

On 02/10/2017 06:41 AM, David Steele wrote:
> On 2/10/17 6:28 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 7:37 PM, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
>>> On 2017-02-09 19:19:21 -0500, Stephen Frost wrote:
>>>> * Robert Haas (robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com) wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 4:24 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>>>>> Also, our experience with contrib/tsearch2 suggests that the extension
>>>>>> shouldn't be part of contrib, because we have zero track record of getting
>>>>>> rid of stuff in contrib, no matter how dead it is.
>>>>>
>>>>> Let's nuke tsearch2 to remove this adverse precedent, and then add the
>>>>> new thing.
>>>>>
>>>>> Anybody who still wants tsearch2 can go get it from an old version, or
>>>>> somebody can maintain a fork on github.
>>>>
>>>> Works for me.
>>>
>>> +1
>>
>> OK, that's three votes in favor of removing tsearch2 (from core,
>> anyone who wants it can maintain a copy elsewhere). Starting a new
>> thread to make sure we collect all the relevant votes, but I really,
>> really think it's past time for this to go away. The last actual
>> change to tsearch2 which wasn't part of a wider cleanup was
>> 3ca7eddbb7c4803729d385a0c9535d8a972ee03f in January 2009, so it's been
>> 7 years since there's been any real work done on this -- and the
>> release where we brought tsearch into core is now EOL, plus three more
>> releases besides.
>
> +1
>

+1

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Josh Berkus
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