Re: removing tsearch2

On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 2:28 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

+1

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