Re: RFC: Make new versions of pgjdbc Java8+

On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 1:58 PM, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa <aht(at)8kdata(dot)com>
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> On 03/04/17 21:47, Brad DeJong wrote:
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> On 2017-04-03 at 09:32-05, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa <aht(at)8kdata(dot)com>
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> > However, I wonder if it would be such a big deal for people that are
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> > Postgres 10 and require SCRAM not to ask them to upgrade their JVM to a
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> If only the people who want the new functionality are required to upgrade
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> If everyone who wants the latest pgjdbc patches has to upgrade to Java 8,
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> I believe the intersection is minimal. What is the chance of users
> willing to upgrade to Postgres 10, needing SCRAM, running JRE6 or JRE7 and
> *not* wanting to upgrade their JRE? (all four conditions need to apply).
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> On 2017-04-03 at 09:32-05, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa <aht(at)8kdata(dot)com>
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> > I think the intersection of people who go for very modern PG and non
> supported Java if almost 0.
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> The problem with using that argument as a reason to move to Java 8 is that
> Java 6 and 7 are supported - just not for free.
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> I stand corrected. I mean now "non supported for free" or equivalent :)
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​Well, as I said Oracle JDK is not the only JDK, the OpenJDK/IcedTea Team
still supports actively Java 7 (and it's recent the drop of Java 6) and
it's free in both as speech and as in beer. :-) if you use Ubuntu 14.04
(which should be supported until April 2019) you will get openjdk-7, and
you can get the Azul Zulu JDK for free too :-)
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