From: | Dave Cramer <pg(at)fastcrypt(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com>, "David Fetter" <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, "Josh Berkus" <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, "Satoshi Nagayasu" <nagayasus(at)nttdata(dot)co(dot)jp>, "Thomas Hallgren" <thomas(at)tada(dot)se> |
Subject: | Re: Three weeks left until feature freeze |
Date: | 2006-07-13 03:04:32 |
Message-ID: | 69C84414-6F4B-4959-92FE-B056EC59BB88@fastcrypt.com |
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On 12-Jul-06, at 10:44 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Jonah H. Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> On 7/12/06, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> wrote:
>>> Are they mutually exclusive? I can imagine, at least for
>>> development
>>> purposes, that someone might want to install both.
>
>> I believe both can be installed and running at the same time. I
>> don't
>> really think anyone would want to run both, but that's just my
>> opinion.
>
> On what grounds do you not think that? PL/J uses an external JVM,
> PL/Java one that is running in the backend process. (Or maybe it was
> the other way 'round, I'm too tired to remember tonight.) That's a
> really fundamental difference that makes them suited for very
> different
> applications; not to mention the resulting different licensing
> scenarios.
No, this is correct.
>
> The points that have been made in this thread about PL/J not being
> actively maintained are important, but other than that objection,
I expect to see a new release shortly.
> I can see no reason that PL/J wouldn't have an equal claim to
> inclusion
> in core. Perhaps more, because it gives us an extra layer of
> insulation
> from JVM licensing questions.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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