Re: Call for objections: removing contrib/rserv for 8.0 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Christopher Kings-Lynne
Subject Re: Call for objections: removing contrib/rserv for 8.0
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Msg-id 412948BB.6040600@familyhealth.com.au
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In response to Re: Call for objections: removing contrib/rserv for 8.0  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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>>>Although plans for a more general cleanup of contrib/ will have to go
>>>back on the shelf for a future release, the core committee is still of
>>>the opinion that it'd be wise to remove rserv in 8.0.
> 
> 
>>Also we really should probably rip out Tsearch (not Tsearc2) as well.
> 
> 
> Eventually yes, but I'm not too concerned about it misleading people,
> since the competition (tsearch2) is right there beside it.  The contrib
> tree needs a thorough going over to eliminate deadwood, but during beta
> is probably not the time to undertake that project.

Tsearch is 100% different to tsearch2 in every way, and converting old 
tsearch stuff to tsearch2 is non-trivial and involved a LOT of changes - 
I suggest leaving it there.  It took a significant amount of work for us 
to change over our ~ 20 tsearch indexes to tsearch2 at my work.

Chris


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