Re: PL/java?

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Dr. Evil [mailto:drevil(at)sidereal(dot)kz]
>> Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2001 7:38 PM
>> To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
>> Subject: [GENERAL] PL/java?
>>
>>
>> What do you think of having java as a procedural language available in
>> PG? It seems like java has many advantages.
>>
>> I'm just wondering if people have thoughts or ideas on this, and if
>> someone is actually working on it, that would be cool.

>""Gowey, Geoffrey"" <ggowey(at)rxhope(dot)com> wrote in message
news:E15F4B031E17D5118B18009027F67927DAC0(at)SERVER(dot)(dot)(dot)
> probably a bad idea. From what I've heard the speed of your java program
is
> wholely dependent on the speed of your vm (and most aren't that quick).
> Although it would be nice to have just to say we have it and mysql doesn't
> (then again mysql doesn't have a whole lot of things that pgsql already
> has).
>
> Geoff

This was a major issue in 1996. It's been solved for several years now, but
the perception of Java having a speed problem remains.

Java stored procedures are the #1 most-desired-by-me feature for PostgreSQL.
Oracle and Sybase are examples of databases that have this feature already.
(Strangely, Microsoft's database doesn't have it :-)

Marshall Spight