It is my understanding we can add things to /contrib even during beta, right? We are certainly more lax with beta than with the main backend tree. /contrib does get compiled so it does need to compile cleanly.
> We're about to release brand new contrib module which is > actually is a first step of integration of OpenFTS to postgres. > Preliminary numbers are rather impressive - > > zen:~/app/pgsql/GiST/tsearch_index$ time psql-dev apod -c \ > "select title from titles where titleidx @@ 'gist&patch';" > /dev/null > > real 0m0.070s > user 0m0.010s > sys 0m0.000s > > > Table 'titles' contains 377905 titles from various mailing lists we > accumulate in our mailware projects. > > apod=# select count(*) from titles; > count > -------- > 377905 > (1 row) > > This contrib is based on our GiST development and will work only with > 7.2. > > We need maximum a week to finish, test, benchmark and document. > > Regards, > Oleg > _____________________________________________________________ > Oleg Bartunov, sci.researcher, hostmaster of AstroNet, > Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University (Russia) > Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/ > phone: +007(095)939-16-83, +007(095)939-23-83 > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command > (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 853-3000 + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue + Christ can be your backup. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org