"Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org> writes:
> On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Tom Lane wrote:
>> "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> writes:
>>> My personal opinion is that contrib should be removed entirely.
>>
>> That's not real workable for code that is tightly tied to the backend,
>> such as the various GIST index extensions presently in contrib. It's
>> just easier to maintain that code when it's in with the backend.
> tsearch, I believe, is maintained somewhere else already, no? same with
> tsearch2?
No, those guys are exactly the sort of backend-dependent code I'm
thinking of. Teodor just recently made a GIST API change that affected
both the core backend and tsearch (as well as the other GIST modules in
contrib). With separate distribution trees that would've been a lot
more painful to do.
I think the long-term plan for tsearch2, at least, should be full
integration rather than separation ...
regards, tom lane
