Would you please consider bringing the contributed package into the
official distribution. 

I found that trying to compile it with the RedHat RPM based installation
was a monumental pain. I gave up.

Its useful, people ask about it on the list, so why not?

For comparison, checkout what MSSQL 7 can do with text indexing.

Regards

John


Tue, 28 Nov 2000 14:08:00 +1300
"John Huttley" <John@mwk.co.nz>
full text indexing
John Huttley wrote:
> Would you please consider bringing the contributed package into the
> official distribution.
 
> I found that trying to compile it with the RedHat RPM based installation
> was a monumental pain. I gave up.
 
> Its useful, people ask about it on the list, so why not?

If there's enough demand, I'd consider doing a 'postgresql-fti' RPM as
part of the RPMset -- but, unless there are really good reasons for it
coming out of contrib, it should stay there.

Maybe asking 'Why isn't the contrib full-text-indexer not in the main
tree?' would be more productive on that front.

How did you attempt to build it under the RPM install?  I assume you had
the postgresql-devel package installed, and the include paths set
properly.... Of course, most of what is in contrib assumes a full source
tree is lying around (argh)....ie, it's wanting to include
Makefile.global in its Makefile.  And, on the RPM dist, Makefile.global
isn't (yet) packaged.
--
Lamar Owen
WGCR Internet Radio
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Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:21:55 -0500
Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>
Re: full text indexing