Re: TODO list: Allow Java server-side programming

Peter Mount wrote:
>
> At 14:57 02/02/01 -0500, Alex Pilosov wrote:
> >On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, tomasz konefal wrote:
> >
> > > could someone please clarify what "Allow Java
> > > server-side programming" actually means? what are the
> > > limitations of using java and jdbc with pgsql?
> >
> >It means to embed Java interpreter inside postgres, and allow writing
> >stored procedures and triggers in Java.
>
> Thats correct. Basically you are talking of something like PL/Java. The
> Java side would be simple, but its linking the JVM to the backend that's
> the problem.
>
> It's been a while since I delved into the backend, but unless it's changed
> from fork() to threading,

Someone posted here recently his port/tweaks of backend so that it used
threads instead of fork(). IIRC it was done to be used inside a java
client in an embedded system.

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Hannu