On Friday 30 August 2002 09:29 am, Tom Lane wrote:
> Lamar Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Does this mean we should be looking for a way to integrate [FTI] into the
> > main backend at this point?  Isn't that what contrib is for?

> Well, given that Chris also thinks that people should migrate to
> tsearch, I'd guess that fulltextindex would not be the one to integrate.
> But yeah, in the long run I'd like to see one of these packages become
> mainstream, just because full-text search is such a widely used feature.

Agreed.  We don't really have guidelines for this process; any idea what was 
the last module moved over like that?  There may be more modules to consider 
-- earthdistance, for instance, which has been with us for a long time.

> The more global point here is that during beta we need everyone to be
> doing testing, bug fixing, and documentation, not new features ---
> even if they're in contrib.  Goodness knows there's not very much
> organization to the Postgres project, but let's try to respect what
> little process we do have...

ABSOLUTELY CORRECT. :-)
-- 
Lamar Owen
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