Tom Lane wrote: > Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> writes: >> On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 12:19:54AM -0400, Matthew T. O'Connor wrote: >>> FTI is a biggie in my mind. I know it ain't happening for 8.2, but is >>> the general plan to integrate TSearch2 directly into the backend? > >> When the Tsearch developers say so I think. > > Yeah, that's my take too. Oleg and Teodor obviously feel it's not "done" > yet, and ISTM leaving it in contrib gives them more flexibility in a > couple of ways: > * they can make user-visible API changes without people getting as upset > as if they were changing core features; > * because it is a removable contrib module, they can (and do) offer > back-ports of newer versions to existing PG release branches. > > I think some descendant of tsearch2 will eventually be in core, but > we'll wait till we're pretty certain it's feature-stable. >
My impression from this post http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-07/msg00556.php was that moving it into core should be doable for 8.3. I hope I didn't misunderstand. cheers andrew ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
