Re: tsearch2 patch for 7.4.1 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Teodor Sigaev
Subject Re: tsearch2 patch for 7.4.1
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Msg-id 3FBDC8FF.80803@sigaev.ru
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In response to Re: tsearch2 patch for 7.4.1  (Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>)
Responses Re: tsearch2 patch for 7.4.1  (Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>)
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No problem, dictionary with support of compounds will be avaliable as separate 
contrib module from our site till 7.5.


Hannu Krosing wrote:
> Tom Lane kirjutas N, 20.11.2003 kell 17:18:
> 
>>Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su> writes:
>>
>>>we have a patch for contrib/tsearch2 we'd like to commit for 7.4.1.
>>>Is it ok ?
>>
>>>We added support for compound words using ispell dictionaries.
>>>It's rather important feature for agglutinative languages like
>>>german, norwegian (tested). This work was sponsored by ABC Startsiden
>>>(www.startsiden.no).
>>
>>This strikes me as a feature addition, and therefore not appropriate for
>>the 7.4 branch.  You should only commit bug fixes into stable branches,
>>not feature additions.
> 
> 
> Is this so even for contrib ?
> 
> I seem to remember that there have been new feature popping up in
> contrib in stable branches earlier.
> 
> But if the general direction is to stabilise contrib as well, what about
> committing it as a separate patch file 
> contrib/tsearch2/patches/compond-words-patch.1 , so that these people
> (or german/norvegian linux distributors) who consider lack of support
> for compound words a bug can apply it themselves before building ?
> 
> ---------------
> Hannu
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