From: | Thomas Hallgren <thomas(at)tada(dot)se> |
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To: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
Cc: | Dave Cramer <pg(at)fastcrypt(dot)com>, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, Satoshi Nagayasu <nagayasus(at)nttdata(dot)co(dot)jp>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Three weeks left until feature freeze |
Date: | 2006-07-13 04:57:57 |
Message-ID: | 44B5D2D5.2030402@tada.se |
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Josh Berkus wrote:
> Thomas,
>
> I'm starting to have second thoughts about this suggestion. I was
> enthusiastic about it at the summit, but I was unaware of the sheer size
> of PL/Java. 38,000 lines of code is 8% of the total size of Postgresql
> ... for *one* PL.
>
> Dave Cramer acquainted me with some of the difficulties of doing a Java
> PL today, and I understand why it needs to be that large. However,
> 38,000 lines of code -- much of it in a non-C language -- presents a
> possible debugging/maintenance major headache, especially if you someday
> left the project for some reason.
>
OK. You're the one that suggested this submission attempt. There's not much point in
pursuing it if you have second thoughts.
> Maybe we do need to look at a plug-in build tool, instead.
>
Right, something that would allow PL/Java to participate in a build farm. That would be cool
and also resolve a some of the issues.
Regards,
Thomas Hallgren
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