Re: RFC: Make new versions of pgjdbc Java8+

On 03/04/17 22:26, Jorge Solórzano wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 1:58 PM, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
> <aht(at)8kdata(dot)com <mailto:aht(at)8kdata(dot)com>> wrote:
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> On 03/04/17 21:47, Brad DeJong wrote:
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>> On 2017-04-03 at 09:32-05, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
>> <aht(at)8kdata(dot)com> <mailto:aht(at)8kdata(dot)com> wrote:
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>> > However, I wonder if it would be such a big deal for people that
>> are upgrading to
>>
>> > Postgres 10 and require SCRAM not to ask them to upgrade their
>> JVM to a non EOLed
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>> > version.
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>> If only the people who want the new functionality are required to
>> upgrade to Java 8, then I think it is not a big deal.
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>> If everyone who wants the latest pgjdbc patches has to upgrade to
>> Java 8, then I think it is a big deal.
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> I believe the intersection is minimal. What is the chance of
> users willing to upgrade to Postgres 10, needing SCRAM, running
> JRE6 or JRE7 and *not* wanting to upgrade their JRE? (all four
> conditions need to apply).
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>> On 2017-04-03 at 09:32-05, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
>> <aht(at)8kdata(dot)com> <mailto:aht(at)8kdata(dot)com> wrote:
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>> > I think the intersection of people who go for very modern PG and
>> non supported Java if almost 0.
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>> The problem with using that argument as a reason to move to Java
>> 8 is that Java 6 and 7 are supported - just not for free.
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> I stand corrected. I mean now "non supported for free" or
> equivalent :)
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> ​Well, as I said Oracle JDK is not the only JDK, the OpenJDK/IcedTea
> Team still supports actively Java 7 (and it's recent the drop of Java
> 6) and it's free in both as speech and as in beer. :-) if you use
> Ubuntu 14.04 (which should be supported until April 2019) you will get
> openjdk-7, and you can get the Azul Zulu JDK for free too :-)

You are right, there is still a path for free and supported Java 7 :)

Thanks,

Álvaro

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Álvaro Hernández Tortosa

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