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

From: Dmitriy Igrishin <dmitigr(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: cowwoc <cowwoc(at)bbs(dot)darktech(dot)org>
Cc: "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Why isn't Java support part of Postgresql core?
Date: 2014-09-19 20:10:18
Message-ID: CAAfz9KPi7=vz+FT0sy9+Lq4FmXS=0HdqF1uPwPh=o5A-6YSZYw@mail.gmail.com
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2014-09-15 9:22 GMT+04:00 cowwoc <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.

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