Re: tsearch_core patch: permissions and security issues

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
Cc: Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>, Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>, Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2007-06-14T17:26:38Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
"Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.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