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
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> Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University (Russia)
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