From: | Dave Cramer <pg(at)fastcrypt(dot)com> |
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To: | Kash <bikevalets(at)sfbike(dot)org> |
Cc: | "pgsql-jdbc(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-jdbc(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Object serialization and postgres tables, |
Date: | 2004-02-14 21:32:20 |
Message-ID: | 1076794339.6802.94.camel@localhost.localdomain |
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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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