Re: Three weeks left until feature freeze

Ühel kenal päeval, T, 2006-07-11 kell 17:34, kirjutas Thomas Hallgren:
> Josh Berkus wrote:
> > Tom,
> >

> >> IOW pljava is (already) bigger than the other four PLs put together.
> >
> > That is odd.  Thomas?
> >
> It's not that odd really:
> 
> 1. the mapping is strongly typed, i.e. each scalar type in PostgreSQL 
> has a set of functions that maps it to the correct primitive in Java 
> (int4 is a java int, double precision is a double etc.). PL/Java will 
> resort to string coercion only when no other option is left.
> 2. a type mapping is provided for *all* types. Scalar, composite, 
> pseudo, array types, and result sets.
> 3. new Java mappings can be created on the fly. Both for scalar and 
> composite types.
> 4. you can create new scalar types in PostgreSQL that uses IO functions 
> written in Java.

Maybe this functionality could be lifted out of PL/Java and made
available to all PL-s ?

At least at some API level.

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