Re: the future of pljava development

Joshua D. Drake wrote:

>> We have limited time; taking time from other
>> things to spend on pljava is quite likely not to be a wonderful idea.
>> It requires that people whose expertise *isn't* Java spend a lot of
>> time learning Java details.
>
> Now this I agree with. I am sure postgresql hackers are happy to help
> the pljava team get things where they need to be, but -hackers needs to
> be focusing on releasing 8.3.

Nothing productive will come of a language debate; let's just say there
are things you can do with a complete programming language at your
disposal that you can't do with PL/pgsql.  I use Java in the database,
and the current PL/Java works very well.  I know C and Java well, and
would be willing to contribute to keeping PL/Java going.  I hadn't heard
that Thomas was departing - sorry to hear that.  Of course, I'm as
time-constrained as everyone else, but I'd rather see PL/Java move
forward slowly than get dropped.

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Guy Rouillier