Re: [HACKERS] removing tsearch2 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: [HACKERS] removing tsearch2
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Msg-id f7f5880a-e5d7-90cd-16c4-658e06b955c8@berkus.org
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] removing tsearch2  (Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>)
Responses Re: [HACKERS] removing tsearch2  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>)
List pgsql-hackers
On 02/10/2017 10:18 AM, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 3:28 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Works for me.
>>>
>>> +1
>>
>> OK, that's three votes in favor of removing tsearch2 (from core,
>> anyone who wants it can maintain a copy elsewhere).
> 
> +1.
> 
> I'd also be in favor of either removing contrib/isn, or changing it so
> that the ISBN country code prefix enforcement went away. That would
> actually not imply and real loss of functionality from a practical
> perspective, since you can still enforce that the check digit is
> correct without any of that. I think that the existing design of some
> parts of contrib/isn is just horrible.

+1 to quick-fix it, -1 to just delete it.

There's a bunch of these things in /contrib which really ought to be
PGXN extensions (also CUBE, earthdistance, etc.).  However, one of the
steps in that would be getting the mainstream platforms to package them
so that users have a reasonable upgrade path, so I would not propose
doing it for 10.

-- 
Josh Berkus
Containers & Databases Oh My!



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