From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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To: | Jeremy Drake <pgsql(at)jdrake(dot)com> |
Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Teodor Sigaev <teodor(at)sigaev(dot)ru> |
Subject: | Re: tsearch in core patch, for inclusion |
Date: | 2007-01-24 19:40:48 |
Message-ID: | 45B7B640.5010402@commandprompt.com |
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Jeremy Drake wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>
>> Teodor Sigaev wrote:
>>> If there aren't objections then we plan commit patch tomorrow or
>>> after tomorrow.
>> I still haven't heard any argument for why this would be necessary or
>> desirable at all, other than that it looks better for marketing
>> reasons, which I will counter by saying that it looks worse for
>> marketing reasons because our hailed plugin mechanism is apparently so
>> poor that it can't support some practical extension module such as
>> this.
>
> I for one am greatly looking forward to tsearch2 being in core. I was
> very fond of the plugin mechanism, until I signed up with a hosting
> provider. I do not have superuser privileges on the database cluster, and
> they will not install any plugins due to unspecified "security concerns".
You could move to Hub or Command Prompt ;)
Joshua D. Drake
> So ATM if I want full text indexing, my only choice would be to avail
> myself of their mysql instance which has it built in. So I have been
> jaded, and my opinion of optional plugins has gone from "wow, this is
> neat" to "man, this is a pain". They do not install plpgsql so I cannot
> write any triggers, they don't install tsearch2 so I don't get full text
> indexing, so all of the great features of postgres I have come to enjoy on
> my own box are suddenly taken away :(
>
> Sorry for the rant, I am just looking forward to 8.3 so I could get full
> text indexing...
>
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