Re: tsearch in core patch, for inclusion

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, 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 22:17:17
Message-ID: 45B7DAED.3010707@dunslane.net
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Neil Conway wrote:
>> If people had a problem with integrating tsearch2 in core they should
>> have said so much earlier.
>>
>
> Peter, Tom and others raised essentially identical objections when this
> design was initially proposed. For example:
>
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-11/msg00392.php
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-11/msg00405.php
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-11/msg00437.php
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-11/msg00397.php
>
> Was a consensus reached in that thread? (I didn't see one, but perhaps
> I've overlooked a mail.)
>
>

IIRC Tom's main objection to the previous proposal was that it involved
large grammar changes, which I understand is not now proposed. The way I
read that thread was that there was no strenuous objection apart from
the grammar parts.

Certainly I think we can still argue about details, such as the
functional API.

cheers

andrew

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