Re: Why isn't Java support part of Postgresql core?

On 17/09/2014 6:04 PM, John R Pierce [via PostgreSQL] wrote:
> On 9/17/2014 2:50 PM, cowwoc wrote:
> > I think it would be much more productive to fix the deployment problem
> > (instead of throwing more documentation at it). If the extension came
> > bundled with Postgresql and was as easy to install as "CREATE
> > EXTENSION pljava" then we wouldn't be having this discussion.
>
> I believe a major issue is the JNI interface... even on a specific
> platform like RHEL6 there can be any of a rather wide range of different
> java's installed, openjdk 1.6, openjdk 1.7, or any of various Sun Java
> SE or EE builds, or even (ARRRGH) GCJ...... the JNI components need to
> be linked to a specific one of these to function properly.

Hi John,

Can you be more specific? Are you talking about load-time linking
against jvm.dll/so?

Gili

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