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

From: Chris Travers <chris(dot)travers(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Dmitriy Igrishin <dmitigr(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: cowwoc <cowwoc(at)bbs(dot)darktech(dot)org>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Why isn't Java support part of Postgresql core?
Date: 2014-09-20 02:42:37
Message-ID: CAKt_ZfupUBC4zgvHivkn=dGdbw=dVnHHyYzHKzpvezXNEj65bA@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 1:10 PM, Dmitriy Igrishin <dmitigr(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

>
>
> 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? :-)
>

Armed Bear Common Lisp should be accessible from pl/java right?
*ducks*

>
>
> --
> // Dmitriy.
>
>

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