Re: 8.2 features status

Tom Lane wrote:
> Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)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