Re: [HACKERS] TODO list: Allow Java server-side programming

2001-02-04 Thread Bruce Momjian
> At 11:18 04/02/01 +0200, Hannu Krosing wrote: > >Peter Mount wrote: > > [snip] > > > > It's been a while since I delved into the backend, but unless it's changed > > > from fork() to threading, > > > >Someone posted here recently his port/tweaks of backend so that it used > >threads instead of

Re: [HACKERS] TODO list: Allow Java server-side programming

2001-02-04 Thread Peter Mount
At 12:36 03/02/01 -0500, Alex Pilosov wrote: >On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, Peter Mount wrote: [snip] > > I know some people think this would slow the backend down, but it's > > only the instanciation of the JVM thats slow, hence the other reason > > fork() is holding this back. Ideally you would want th

Re: [HACKERS] TODO list: Allow Java server-side programming

2001-02-04 Thread Peter Mount
At 17:56 03/02/01 +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote: >Peter Mount writes: > > > Thats correct. Basically you are talking of something like PL/Java. The > > Java side would be simple, but its linking the JVM to the backend that's > > the problem. > >I've tried that recently, here's how it looks as far

Re: [HACKERS] TODO list: Allow Java server-side programming

2001-02-04 Thread Peter Mount
At 11:18 04/02/01 +0200, Hannu Krosing wrote: >Peter Mount wrote: [snip] > > It's been a while since I delved into the backend, but unless it's changed > > from fork() to threading, > >Someone posted here recently his port/tweaks of backend so that it used >threads instead of fork(). IIRC it was

Re: [HACKERS] TODO list: Allow Java server-side programming

2001-02-04 Thread Hannu Krosing
Peter Mount wrote: > > At 14:57 02/02/01 -0500, Alex Pilosov wrote: > >On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, tomasz konefal wrote: > > > > > could someone please clarify what "Allow Java > > > server-side programming" actually means? what are the > > > limitations of using java and jdbc with pgsql? > > > >It me

Re: [HACKERS] TODO list: Allow Java server-side programming

2001-02-03 Thread Alex Pilosov
On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, Peter Mount wrote: > It's been a while since I delved into the backend, but unless it's > changed from fork() to threading, I don't really see this happening, > unless someone who knows C that well knows of a portable way of > communicating between two processes - other than R

Re: [HACKERS] TODO list: Allow Java server-side programming

2001-02-03 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Peter Mount writes: > Thats correct. Basically you are talking of something like PL/Java. The > Java side would be simple, but its linking the JVM to the backend that's > the problem. I've tried that recently, here's how it looks as far as Linux JVMs go: * Kaffe has a very polluted name space.

Re: [HACKERS] TODO list: Allow Java server-side programming

2001-02-03 Thread Peter Mount
At 14:57 02/02/01 -0500, Alex Pilosov wrote: >On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, tomasz konefal wrote: > > > could someone please clarify what "Allow Java > > server-side programming" actually means? what are the > > limitations of using java and jdbc with pgsql? > >It means to embed Java interpreter inside p

Re: [HACKERS] TODO list: Allow Java server-side programming

2001-02-02 Thread Alex Pilosov
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, tomasz konefal wrote: > could someone please clarify what "Allow Java > server-side programming" actually means? what are the > limitations of using java and jdbc with pgsql? It means to embed Java interpreter inside postgres, and allow writing stored procedures and trigge

[HACKERS] TODO list: Allow Java server-side programming

2001-02-02 Thread tomasz konefal
greetings, group! :) i have a question about the TODO list and could not find an answer in any of the list archives. i am very new to SQL and even newer to pgsql, so my ideas of how things work is still a bit fuzzy. i am currently working on a small e-commerce type website which is hopefully