From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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To: | mark(at)mark(dot)mielke(dot)cc |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Dave Cramer <pg(at)fastcrypt(dot)com>, "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Thomas Hallgren <thomas(at)tada(dot)se>, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, Satoshi Nagayasu <nagayasus(at)nttdata(dot)co(dot)jp>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Three weeks left until feature freeze |
Date: | 2006-07-13 18:46:11 |
Message-ID: | 44B694F3.5070700@commandprompt.com |
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mark(at)mark(dot)mielke(dot)cc wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 01:02:16PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> PL/Java will improve the visibility of PL/Java to people who won't go
>> looking for it. That's fine, but ultimately that's a packaging argument
>> not a development argument. The people who think PL/Java is an
>> essential checklist item undoubtedly also think JDBC is an essential
>> checklist item, but I'm not seeing any groundswell of support for
>> putting JDBC back into core. Instead we expect packagers (like the RPM
>> set) to make JDBC available alongside the core postgres packages.
>> That's how PL/Java ought to be handled, too, IMHO.
>
> JDBC is different, in that it doesn't require the PostgreSQL core to
> build. It's 100% native Java, and as such, I see benefit to it being
> distributed separately.
PLJava does not need PostgreSQL core to build either. It needs:
pgxs + Postgresql libs + PostgreSQL headers
In essence the PostgreSQL SDK.
If I read what Thomas wrote (late) last night correctly.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
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