From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
Cc: | pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org, "C(dot) Filipe Medeiros" <filipe(at)mercenary3(dot)com> |
Subject: | Re: First Step to Major Use: Integrated Full-Text |
Date: | 2005-12-05 22:41:37 |
Message-ID: | 4394C221.50401@commandprompt.com |
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Am Montag, 5. Dezember 2005 20:09 schrieb C. Filipe Medeiros:
>
>> I think a major step that the development community behind Pgsql
>> could take to advance the project would be to take Tsearch2 or OpenFTS
>> and make one of them (I prefer the Tsearch2 architecture, but then I
>> haven't used OpenFTS in a while) native to Postgres rather than a contrib.
>>
>
> This is certainly a completely misguided solution to your problem. Imagine
> what software packages like Linux, Perl, or Apache would look like today if
> the response to every "my hoster has not installed module X" had been "let's
> put X in the core distribution". One could certainly argue about the merits
> of full-text search in particular, but that will only postpone your real
> problem until next week.
>
Not to mention that Tsearch2 is part of PostgreSQL. If your hoster
doesn't realize the benifits, change
hosting companies ;)... Or ask them to install postgresql-contrib.
Joshua D. Drake
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