Re: [JDBC] Ant installation (and other) issues!
Seems like the debate has flared again. - Original Message - From: Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gunnar Rønning [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Per-Olof Norén [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 1:22 AM Subject: Re: [JDBC] Ant installation (and other) issues! Gunnar =?iso-8859-1?q?R=F8nning?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But anyway this off topic, what need to have is a build process that works nicely and I think including the ant binaries(around 500k) would be the best solution here. 500k of binaries? You just lost the argument. That's not an acceptable amount of overhead to add to the Postgres distribution. I don´t see why the size of ant will be a problem. Could you please explain to me? ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
[JDBC] Compliance? Plans?
Hi again all, First off, I´d like to declare that my intention is not to be a pain in the B** :-) Working on customer´s campuses equipped with laptop and a viennaSQL (a pure java sql client) i have had the need for many different drivers for different dbmses. The effort involved getting a working jdbc driver for the dbms at hand has varied; from extremely easy to almost impossible. As I´m currently promoting postgreSQL as an Orcacle alternative, I have been working in parallell with both drivers and the driver´s compliance to the api differs, which has really been a hazzle. My questions to the people actively developing the driver is: 1. How is the driver compliance tests carried out? The test harness from sun? 2. How often is compliance tests carried out? 3. Is there a policy for those issues where postgres has limited backend support for the jdbc API functions? 4. Is there a development plan for the jdbc package, similar to that of the server itself? lastly, while I´m at it :-) Is there a known problem with the implementation of java.sql.Blob.getBinaryStream() implmentation? I get the size of the blob with length() and its correct While reading the Stream I get returncode -1 immediatly server is 7.1.3jdbc built on jdk 1.3 on linux. Same error appears on win2000 (using the same driver) Regards, Per-Olof Norén Stockholm, Sweden
[JDBC] Ant installation (and other) issues!
Hi all, I have been listening to the discussions about Ant and the build system. I think that the discussion is missing a point, which I will try to make here :-) 1. Standard The Ant build system is making its way to be a "de facto" standard for building java applications as it is built for the purpose. 2. Integration In the apache cocoon project, the ant build system jar is shipped along with the distribution and does not require a separate installation of Ant onthe target system. The Ant shell script is customized so that the JAVA_HOME environment is the only parameter to set. In the case of postgreSQL driver this could be done by invoking the "pgcustom" ant build from the gnu configure/make when configuring with the "--with-java" parameter. 3. Platforms I´m sure everyone agrees that providing a working java compiler should be out of scope for the build system. Since the ant jar is shipped along, with its own build scripts (.bat and .sh) the build of the driver need not to differ for the platform used. 4. Other things not particulary related to the build The build script should, IMHO, NOT replace good implementation and structured design of the driver packages. Alittle note on the server and the driver as a substitute for Oracle. Everytime a get a chance, I spread the word of this wonderful database and people wonder "why not MySQL?" I tell them to look a the benchmarking test made by different users, to look at the SQL 9x compliance and to realize the size of the devel community for pgsql and the jdbc driver. As the postgis project evolves with its spatially enabling extension to the driver, the driver´s compliance to the API compared to commercial dmses will be IMHO one of the success factors for providing a rock solid open source alternative. I Can´t help it, I Just love this Server AND Driver. Thanx for listening :-) Per-Olof Norén Stockholm
Re: [JDBC] J2SE 1.4 and other patches
- Original Message - From: Dave Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 1:29 PM Subject: Re: [JDBC] J2SE 1.4 and other patches Ok, what specifically in jdbc 3.0 do people want implemented? I personally would like the java.sql.Blob.getBinaryStream() to actually return a Stream with content. Right now I havn´t got the time to investigate further, but code working against Oracle, returns -1 from the first read() from the stream when run agains pgsql. This is probably not the correct forum, but perhaps someone could forward this problem to initiated source Regards Per-Olof Norén ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
