From: | Marti Raudsepp <marti(at)juffo(dot)org> |
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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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