On Friday 30 August 2002 09:29 am, Tom Lane wrote:
> Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org> writes:
> > Does this mean we should be looking for a way to integrate [FTI] into the
> > main backend at this point? Isn't that what contrib is for?
> Well, given that Chris also thinks that people should migrate to
> tsearch, I'd guess that fulltextindex would not be the one to integrate.
> But yeah, in the long run I'd like to see one of these packages become
> mainstream, just because full-text search is such a widely used feature.
Agreed. We don't really have guidelines for this process; any idea what was
the last module moved over like that? There may be more modules to consider
-- earthdistance, for instance, which has been with us for a long time.
> The more global point here is that during beta we need everyone to be
> doing testing, bug fixing, and documentation, not new features ---
> even if they're in contrib. Goodness knows there's not very much
> organization to the Postgres project, but let's try to respect what
> little process we do have...
ABSOLUTELY CORRECT. :-)
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Lamar Owen
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