Re: removing tsearch2

On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 8:28 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 7:37 PM, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
>> On 2017-02-09 19:19:21 -0500, Stephen Frost wrote:
>>> * Robert Haas (robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com) wrote:
>>> > On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 4:24 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>> > > Also, our experience with contrib/tsearch2 suggests that the extension
>>> > > shouldn't be part of contrib, because we have zero track record of getting
>>> > > rid of stuff in contrib, no matter how dead it is.
>>> >
>>> > Let's nuke tsearch2 to remove this adverse precedent, and then add the
>>> > new thing.
>>> >
>>> > Anybody who still wants tsearch2 can go get it from an old version, or
>>> > somebody can maintain a fork on github.
>>>
>>> Works for me.
>>
>> +1
>
> OK, that's three votes in favor of removing tsearch2 (from core,
> anyone who wants it can maintain a copy elsewhere). Starting a new
> thread to make sure we collect all the relevant votes, but I really,
> really think it's past time for this to go away. The last actual
> change to tsearch2 which wasn't part of a wider cleanup was
> 3ca7eddbb7c4803729d385a0c9535d8a972ee03f in January 2009, so it's been
> 7 years since there's been any real work done on this -- and the
> release where we brought tsearch into core is now EOL, plus three more
> releases besides.

+1.
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Michael