Re: Caching driver on pgFoundry?

On 8-Sep-07, at 5:38 PM, Oliver Jowett wrote:

> Dave Cramer wrote:
>> On 7-Sep-07, at 9:13 AM, Oliver Jowett wrote:
>>>
>>> What is the implementation advantage of making statement pooling
>>> part of the main driver? There are maintenance issues which count
>>> *against* it being part of the driver so you need to provide a
>>> good reason to include it.
>>>
>> Well, it has to be maintained regardless of where it is. So how
>> does that make any difference ?
>
> Err if it is part of the main driver it needs to be maintained as
> part of the main driver and will follow the main driver's release
> cycle. Others have commented on the same thing. It also increases
> the complexity of the main driver, making it harder for a
> particular person to maintain the whole thing.
>
> I'm going to ask again: What is the implementation advantage of
> making statement pooling part of the main driver?
>
It's simpler, there's about half a dozen classes and one if statement
as opposed to implementing the Connection and Statement interfaces
for 3 versions of jdbc and yet another build system that does the same.

Dave
> -O