Re: Why isn't Java support part of Postgresql core?

From: Rob Sargent <robjsargent(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Why isn't Java support part of Postgresql core?
Date: 2014-09-19 20:50:40
Message-ID: 541C9720.8060206@gmail.com
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On 09/19/2014 02:10 PM, Dmitriy Igrishin wrote:
>
>
> 2014-09-15 9:22 GMT+04:00 cowwoc <cowwoc(at)bbs(dot)darktech(dot)org
> <mailto:cowwoc(at)bbs(dot)darktech(dot)org>>:
>
> Hi,
>
> Out of curiosity, why is Postgresql's Java support so poor? I am
> specifically looking for the ability to write triggers in Java.
>
>
> I took a look at the PL/Java project and it looked both incomplete
> and dead,
> yet other languages like Javascript are taking off. I would have
> expected to
> see very strong support for Java because it's the most frequently used
> language on the server-side.
>
> What's going on? Why isn't this a core language supported
> alongside SQL,
> Perl and Python as part of the core project?
>
> Out of curiosity and what's going on? Why there is no Common Lisp
> in PostgresSQL's core? :-)
>
>
> --
> // Dmitriy.
>
Dmitri, please be careful. Your risking all the emacs users chiming in!

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