Re: RFC: Make new versions of pgjdbc Java8+

On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 1:58 PM, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa <aht@8kdata.com> wrote:

On 03/04/17 21:47, Brad DeJong wrote:

 

On 2017-04-03 at 09:32-05, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa <aht@8kdata.com> wrote:

> However, I wonder if it would be such a big deal for people that are upgrading to

> Postgres 10 and require SCRAM not to ask them to upgrade their JVM to a non EOLed

> version.

 

If only the people who want the new functionality are required to upgrade to Java 8, then I think it is not a big deal.

If everyone who wants the latest pgjdbc patches has to upgrade to Java 8, then I think it is a big deal.

    I believe the intersection is minimal. What is the chance of users willing to upgrade to Postgres 10, needing SCRAM, running JRE6 or JRE7 and *not* wanting to upgrade their JRE? (all four conditions need to apply).

 

On 2017-04-03 at 09:32-05, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa <aht@8kdata.com> wrote:

> I think the intersection of people who go for very modern PG and non supported Java if almost 0.

The problem with using that argument as a reason to move to Java 8 is that Java 6 and 7 are supported - just not for free.

 

    I stand corrected. I mean now "non supported for free" or equivalent :)

​Well, as I said Oracle JDK is not the only JDK, the OpenJDK/IcedTea Team still supports actively Java 7 (and it's recent the drop of Java 6) and it's free in both as speech and as in beer. :-) if you use Ubuntu 14.04 (which should be supported until April 2019) you will get openjdk-7, and you can get the Azul Zulu JDK for free too :-)

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Álvaro Hernández Tortosa


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