From: | Dave Cramer <pg(at)fastcrypt(dot)com> |
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To: | Oliver Jowett <oliver(at)opencloud(dot)com> |
Cc: | Kris Jurka <books(at)ejurka(dot)com>, Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, pgsql-jdbc(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: JDBC gripe list |
Date: | 2011-03-30 01:19:00 |
Message-ID: | AANLkTimCfVW8wYEkj-Eu+B+QP0-SDFrppW7n8Cf9nnme@mail.gmail.com |
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On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 9:09 PM, Oliver Jowett <oliver(at)opencloud(dot)com> wrote:
> On 30 March 2011 12:43, Kris Jurka <books(at)ejurka(dot)com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 29 Mar 2011, Kevin Grittner wrote:
>>
>>> Unfortunately, the combination of these two requirements with the
>>> fact that the PostgreSQL driver supports JDK 1.2 or higher means
>>> that this option must not be allowed.
>>
>> Support for JDK1.2 and 1.3 was dropped starting with the 8.4 release.
>>
>> http://jdbc.postgresql.org/download.html#supported
>
> What do you think about dropping support for 1.4 and requiring 1.5?
>
> * the issues with generics in JDBC interfaces would hopefully go away
> * many of the backwards compatibility issues with older JDBC versions
> (e.g. BIT vs BOOLEAN) go away
> * we can use generics in the driver implementation
> * we can use java.util.concurrent
> * many 3rd party libraries become useful (e.g. Netty) - there aren't
> many things that support 1.4 left
>
> I have a hard time dealing with the driver code these days because
> first, I have to forget half of the language tools I usually use ..
>
> Oliver
>
Is there any way to get statistics on downloads of jars ? Might be
useful to see how many times those drivers get downloaded ?
Dave Cramer
dave.cramer(at)credativ(dot)ca
http://www.credativ.ca
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