Jeremy Drake wrote: > On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > >> Teodor Sigaev wrote: >>> If there aren't objections then we plan commit patch tomorrow or >>> after tomorrow. >> I still haven't heard any argument for why this would be necessary or >> desirable at all, other than that it looks better for marketing >> reasons, which I will counter by saying that it looks worse for >> marketing reasons because our hailed plugin mechanism is apparently so >> poor that it can't support some practical extension module such as >> this. > > I for one am greatly looking forward to tsearch2 being in core. I was > very fond of the plugin mechanism, until I signed up with a hosting > provider. I do not have superuser privileges on the database cluster, and > they will not install any plugins due to unspecified "security concerns".
You could move to Hub or Command Prompt ;) Joshua D. Drake > So ATM if I want full text indexing, my only choice would be to avail > myself of their mysql instance which has it built in. So I have been > jaded, and my opinion of optional plugins has gone from "wow, this is > neat" to "man, this is a pain". They do not install plpgsql so I cannot > write any triggers, they don't install tsearch2 so I don't get full text > indexing, so all of the great features of postgres I have come to enjoy on > my own box are suddenly taken away :( > > Sorry for the rant, I am just looking forward to 8.3 so I could get full > text indexing... > -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 || 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 Providing the most comprehensive PostgreSQL solutions since 1997 http://www.commandprompt.com/ Donate to the PostgreSQL Project: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate PostgreSQL Replication: http://www.commandprompt.com/products/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings