Re: Object serialization and postgres tables,

We dropped it because nobody was using it. And it added complexity to
the driver.

Dave
On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 11:43, Kash wrote:
> I've been asked to store some java objects in a postgresql database so that
> the individual fields are accessible. After a little poking around I found
> mentions of org.postgreql.util.Serialize in the postgres JDBC extensions.
>
> I tried to use the create() method to generate tables matching the object I
> wanted to store, but no luck. More research turned up mentions that the
> code did not work as advertised and other comments that it would be deleted
> in future releases.
>
> Sure enough, running jar on the files available at
> http://jdbc.postgresql.org shows that in releases above 7.3 ,
> org/postgresql/util/Serialize.class is missing.
>
> Tantalizingly, in the postgresql 7.4 release notes under JDBC there is an
> entry 'serialize addition', and in a CVS log 'Removed deprecated Serialize
> functionality'.
>
> I can find no explanation of whether or how the functionality has been
> replaced. Mapping objects to tables seems so broadly useful that I can't
> imagine it's just been dropped. Does anyone know?
>
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