Re: [HACKERS] PL/(pg)J

Laszlo,

Keep us informed of your progress. I for one am very interested in what
you are doing here.

thanks,
--Barry

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> Laszlo Hornyak wrote:
>
> > Happy new year for all!
> >
> > I would like to tell you about the results of my work on pl/j.
> > memo: Java and postgres must run in a separate address space. First I
> > wanted to use the sys v ipc, which was a bad idea becouse of some
> > problems with java VM-s. Many hackers told me about its bad sides, and
> > the good sides of the sockets, so I droped the whole code and started a
> > new one.
> >
> > I started to write the java side first, which is maybe almost 10%
> ready :))
> > -we have is a communication protocol between the two process. I know
> > noone will like it, so there is an API for protocols, so it is plugable.
> > The current implementation is receiveing calls,sends exceptions, but
> > sending the results is not implemented yet.
> >
> > -the Postgres side is not yet done. It sends function calls without
> > arguments, it doesn`t receive sql queries, exceptions or results at all,
> > and there is no API for it, it is an uggly hardcoded thing.
> >
> > -there is no JDBC implementation, and I have never written JDBC driver,
> > so it may take for a while...
> >
> > But it says "hello world" :))
> >
> > Todo for me:
> >
> > -learn more about postgres, jdbc drivers, etc, etc
> > -develop api for the postgres side of the communication.
> >
> > This will take for a good while becouse of other todos but I hope next
> > time I can tell you good news.
> >
> > thx,
> > Laszlo Hornyak
> >
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