| From: | Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)BlueTreble(dot)com> |
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| To: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)berkus(dot)org>, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Daniel Verite <daniel(at)manitou-mail(dot)org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, Vladimir Rusinov <vrusinov(at)google(dot)com>, David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net>, Cynthia Shang <cynthia(dot)shang(at)crunchydata(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: removing tsearch2 |
| Date: | 2017-02-13 02:09:34 |
| Message-ID: | 12240fbb-a56a-25a2-1c8f-57b068f94088@BlueTreble.com |
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On 2/10/17 2:24 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Part of the reason for keeping a number of extensions is that it helps
> test our extension infrastructure. Also they server as good pieces of
> example code. So I don't want to get rid of them all, or even any of
> them that have any degree of significant use. I think these days
> tsearch2 is very largely redundant, so that means there's a good reason
> not to keep it. But that's not true of cube, isn etc.
That's based on an assumption that PGXN shouldn't be treated as part of
the community effort, which I think is a mistake. Having a robust,
community run extension/package/module framework has proven to be
extremely valuable for other programming environments, and IMHO we
should be striving to improve in that area.
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