From: bgiles at coyotesong.com (Bear Giles)
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2015 18:42:33 -0600
Subject: [Pljava-dev] The pljava Project is dead (LONG but I hope
	interesting)
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It's a big jump in scope but don't some databases have a native type for
java classes and a way to execute them? (It's not hard to imagine a UDT for
jar files as well.) It's not always possible to load jar files from the
operating system.

On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 6:13 PM, Craig Ringer <craig at 2ndquadrant.com> wrote:

> On 20 July 2015 at 04:11, Chapman Flack <chap at anastigmatix.net> wrote:
> > 9.1 goes EOL just over a year from now:
> > http://www.postgresql.org/support/versioning/
> >
> > So, by biting the bullet and declaring some reasonable newer cutoffs
> > for back-compatibility, the project can become more contributor-
> > friendly.
>
>
> Cutting heavily to focus on an extension-only version with
> 9.1-and-newer compatibility on JDK 6 (7?) seems sensible to me.
>
> The PgJDBC project doesn't maintain compatibility anywhere near as far
> back as PL/Java, and we're about to advance the BC stops even further.
> People who want to use old databases can use old versions of the
> driver.
>
> The build system could also use some love.
>
> --
>  Craig Ringer                   http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
>  PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services
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