Re: Demo ideas?

Ken,
There are alternatives. The most obvious is perhaps to use gcj and avoid the jvm dependency
altogether. Other alternatives are listed under the heading "zlib conflict" here:
http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/pljava/genpage.php?readme

Question: When is zlib used in the backend today?

Kind regards,
Thomas Hallgren

Kenneth Marshall wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 12:29:39PM -0800, Josh Berkus wrote:
>> Thomas,
>>
>>> And don't forget to mention
>>> PL/Java ;-)
>> You'll be happy to know that the analyst had a specific question about java
>> procedural support.
>>
>> BTW, what happened to the discussion of moving PL/java into core for 8.2?
>>
>> --
>> --Josh
>>
> Josh,
>
> We tried to include PL/java in our standard build, but the version of
> the zlib library in the JVM is ancient and the incompatibility would
> cause the DB to crash. Until we can get a JVM built against a current
> library from Sun I think it would be a bad idea to have PL/java in
> the core.
>
> Ken
>
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