Re: [HACKERS] PL/(pg)J

Laszlo,

Keep us informed of your progress.  I for one am very interested in what
you are doing here.

thanks,
--Barry

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> Laszlo Hornyak wrote:
>
>  > Happy new year for all!
>  >
>  > I would like to tell you about the results of my work on pl/j.
>  > memo: Java and postgres must run in a separate address space. First I
>  > wanted to use the sys v ipc, which was a bad idea becouse of some
>  > problems with java VM-s. Many hackers told me about its bad sides, and
>  > the good sides of the sockets, so I droped the whole code and started a
>  > new one.
>  >
>  > I started to write the java side first, which is maybe almost 10%
> ready :))
>  > -we have is a communication protocol between the two process. I know
>  > noone will like it, so there is an API for protocols, so it is plugable.
>  > The current implementation is receiveing calls,sends exceptions, but
>  > sending the results is not implemented yet.
>  >
>  > -the Postgres side is not yet done. It sends function calls without
>  > arguments, it doesn`t receive sql queries, exceptions or results at all,
>  > and there is no API for it, it is an uggly hardcoded thing.
>  >
>  > -there is no JDBC implementation, and I have never written JDBC driver,
>  > so it may take for a while...
>  >
>  > But it says "hello world" :))
>  >
>  > Todo for me:
>  >
>  > -learn more about postgres, jdbc drivers, etc, etc
>  > -develop api for the postgres side of the communication.
>  >
>  > This will take for a good while becouse of other todos but I hope next
>  > time I can tell you good news.
>  >
>  > thx,
>  > Laszlo Hornyak
>  >
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