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

From: Marti Raudsepp <marti(at)juffo(dot)org>
To: cowwoc <cowwoc(at)bbs(dot)darktech(dot)org>
Cc: PG-General Mailing List <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Why isn't Java support part of Postgresql core?
Date: 2014-09-15 09:59:46
Message-ID: CABRT9RBkNfotpESgUk63_Od14AZ4sL1shd-d1ozk7s7MCUHtNg@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 8:22 AM, cowwoc <cowwoc(at)bbs(dot)darktech(dot)org> wrote:
> 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.

Because no person or company has been motivated to push it so far.

> Why isn't this a core language supported alongside SQL,
> Perl and Python as part of the core project?

I don't know about Perl, but the PL/Python language is somewhat
neglected as well (though has been slightly improving recently). It's
there because it was already merged ages ago. By today's quality
standards, I believe it would not be accepted into PostgreSQL core.

Regards,
Marti

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