RFC: Make new versions of pgjdbc Java8+

     Hi.

     Following-up on my previous own comments on this thread:
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/47f0171d-6d34-fc12-2849-fd157d69925b%408kdata.com,
I want to raise this question independently.

     Let me bring these facts to the table:

- Java 6 EOLed 2/2013.
- Java 7 EOLed 4/2015.
- Java 8 was released 3 years ago, and brought significant improvements.
- Java 9 will be (may be) released this year.
- By July 2016, Java 6 usage was less than 10% and declining
significantly, while 8 raising, according to
https://zeroturnaround.com/rebellabs/java-tools-and-technologies-landscape-2016-trends/
- Companies are version conservative, but don't want to run on EOLed
products (that's even worse).
- Java 8 may attract more development power to the driver (nobody likes
working without lambdas, streams, etc, when they are available!).
- There are fully featured versions of pgjdbc (up to and including 42)
that are JDK6-compatible, and will remain there.

     What would be the reasons *not to* make *future* versions of pgjdbc
Java8+? If fixes/security patches would be backported to some Java6+
releases (like v42), I don't actually see any.

     Thoughts?


     Álvaro

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Álvaro Hernández Tortosa


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