Re: JDBC 4 Compliance

<div>På tirsdag 25. juni 2013 kl. 15:44:49, skrev Dave Cramer &lt;<a href="mailto:pg(at)fastcrypt(dot)com" target="_blank">pg(at)fastcrypt(dot)com</a>&gt;:</div>

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<div dir="ltr">Here's the way I see this from my POV.
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<div style="">First some perspective. </div>

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<div style="">There are approx. 5 people actively participating in this discussion. 1000's of other people are happy just downloading the driver. In my mind they are the market.</div>

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<div style="">Now some reality.</div>

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<div style="">I have been maintaining the driver since around 2000. Since that time others have contributed greatly. Namely Kris Jurka and Oliver Jowett stand out as people who have stepped up in a big way and in fact taken over much of the work when I was unavailable</div>

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<div style="">At the moment I am the only one left. I have never been paid for any of this. I am not expecting to, but this reality means that I have limited time to work on it.</div>

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<div style="">Other than Kris and Oliver, there have been others who have expressed interest in donating their time and effort, for whatever reason they do not remain active. </div>

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<div style="">In the case of Kevin's 10 month old patch Craig Ringer originally reviewed that patch and I left him in charge of it. As a result it became stale and Kevin decided his time was better spent writing a whole new driver. </div>

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<div style="">In most open source projects people get involved slowly. Patches which involve large changes to the codebase are not accepted by people who are not going to take future responsibility for them. </div>

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<div style="">Keep in mind that I have considerable knowledge of how the code works right now. If I were to accept a huge change, then I become responsible for it. Unless I see some continued commitment from someone how do I know they will continue to be responsible for this new code ?</div>

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<div style="">Moving forward. As I see it the number one problem is lack of resources. Instead of opting for wholesale change the project needs resources. Someone else to review patches, someone to work on the website. Someone to deploy to maven.</div>

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<div style="">Anyone feel like volunteering ?</div>
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<div>As a developer, among those other 1000s of people, having used PG from JVM-based languages for the past 13 years I'm really starting to miss better support for UDT and BLOBs. As development seems to have stagnated in the standard-driver I very much welcome Kevin's new driver (impressive work man!) and hope it will be the start of &quot;pgjdbc-NG&quot; driver.</div>

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<div>There are a lot of people who don't care for JAVA &lt; 7</div>

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