removing tsearch2

On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 7:37 PM, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> On 2017-02-09 19:19:21 -0500, Stephen Frost wrote:
>> * Robert Haas (robertmhaas@gmail.com) wrote:
>> > On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 4:24 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.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.

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