Yup, not a crucial component of the base system ... once we start to get
into the 'release candidate' mode, then it is kinda frowned upon, but
early beta, no probs ...
On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> 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: oleg@sai.msu.su, http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/
> > phone: +007(095)939-16-83, +007(095)939-23-83
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