Re: PostgreSQL in the press again

Joshua D. Drake wrote:
 > Yes but I believe even you would agree that their are programming
 > languages that are better for certain tasks than others. The use of
 > java as a replication engine for PostgreSQL seems, well... incorrect.

Marc G. Fournier wrote:
 > We definitely concur with that, which is why we are re-writing it ...
 > going to Java, as Andrew has mentioned, was *not* a design decision that
 > we made, but was made for us :(
 >
Now I get really curious. Why would Java be a bad choice for a
replication engine? I would consider it an excellent choice, provided of
course that the people tasked with the implementation had the right
skills. C-JDBC for instance, is written in Java.

Regards,
Thomas Hallgren