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To: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
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	Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com>, pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: JDBC support
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Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu> writes:

> > I could not locate the JDBC driver in the download area of your website.
> > All I see is the ODBC driver.  When you say you offer a JDBC connection
> > interface, do you mean only JDBC-ODBC bridge?  If so, when will you offer a
> > native JDBC driver?  Thanks.
> 
> We have a native JDBC driver. It is included in the distribution

Strictly speaking in JDBC terms the JDBC driver supplied with PostgreSQL is
not native. A JDBC native driver would have been implemented using C/C++
native code. The portable all Java driver supplied with PostgreSQL is a
more robust and reliable solution than most drivers relying on native
code... 

regards, 

	Gunnar