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Subject: Re: [pgjdbc/pgjdbc] PR #3062: feat: type cache rework, codec API, and composite-type round-trip
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> > Could it be done without Caffeine? Yes — a plain ConcurrentHashMap with the get() + putIfAbsent() pattern (which the spec already uses for fieldsByOid) would work
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> ConcurrentHashMap does not support eviction of unused entries, and we do require it.
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> > The tradeoff is ~300KB added to the shaded JAR
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> We can reduce the classes and include only those that are needed for pgjdbc. I'm sure it would be way less than 300KiB overhead.

Excellent!