Re: tsearch_core patch: permissions and security issues

"Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> O.k. I am not trying to throw any cold water on this, but with the
> limitations we are suggesting, does the patch gain us anything over just
> leaving tsearch in contrib?

Well, if you want to take a hard-nosed approach, no form of the patch
would gain us anything over leaving it in contrib, at least not from a
functionality standpoint. The argument in favor has always been about
perception, really: if it's a "core" feature not an "add-on", then
people will take it more seriously. And there's a rather weak
ease-of-use argument that you don't have to install a contrib module.
(The idea that it's targeted at people who can't or won't install a
contrib module is another reason why I think we can skip user-defined
parsers and dictionaries ...)

regards, tom lane