Re: TSearch still in contrib? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: TSearch still in contrib?
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Msg-id 41D998BC.8020205@commandprompt.com
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In response to Re: TSearch still in contrib?  (Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>)
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Robert Treat wrote:
> On Friday 31 December 2004 14:37, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>Is there any reason why TSearch (not TSearch2) is still in
>>contrib? TSearch is a 7.3.x module...
>>
>
>
> I believe it was left in for backwards compatibility and afaik it still builds
> in the 8.0 tree. If you'd like to make the argument that 8.0 is a good time
> to remove it go ahead. The first couple lines of README.tsearch might help:
> "This module is deprecated in 7.4 version of PostgreSQL and will be
> obsoleted in 8.0. Please, use new tsearch2 contrib module."

Compiling and working are different things :). To be fair I haven't
tested TSearch on 8.0 but since it is considered outdated... perhaps we
should remove it.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake



>


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