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

On 18/09/2014 9:18 AM, David G Johnston [via PostgreSQL] wrote:
> What distributions of JRE are available on the Windows platform and
> which ones are allowed to be "privately distributed"?

(Answered in a follow-up email to John Pierce)

> For this scenario your target audience is the people, at EnterpriseDB,
> who package the Windows installer. IIRC PostGIS is part of the
> builder - and it is definitely not core maintained - so pl/java should
> be no different.
>
> Each platform is different and the package builders should deal with
> making pl/java easy deploy - but the project itself needs to help
> facilitate that end (through code and documentation). Regardless, the
> core team, for reasons already stated, likely will not and should not
> be the maintainers of pl/java. It needs to be an extension and
> interface with PostgreSQL via the provided mechanisms.

Agreed.

Gili

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