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From pgsql-hackers-owner+M4145@postgresql.org Sat Feb 3 05:54:06 2001
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Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2001 10:46:24 +0000
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To: Alex Pilosov <alex@pilosoft.com>, tomasz konefal <twkonefal@yahoo.ca>
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From: Peter Mount <peter@retep.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [HACKERS] TODO list: Allow Java server-side programming
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Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
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At 14:57 02/02/01 -0500, Alex Pilosov wrote:
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>On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, tomasz konefal wrote:
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> > could someone please clarify what "Allow Java
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> > server-side programming" actually means? what are the
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> > limitations of using java and jdbc with pgsql?
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>It means to embed Java interpreter inside postgres, and allow writing
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>stored procedures and triggers in Java.
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Thats correct. Basically you are talking of something like PL/Java. The
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Java side would be simple, but its linking the JVM to the backend that's
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the problem.
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It's been a while since I delved into the backend, but unless it's changed
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from fork() to threading, I don't really see this happening, unless someone
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who knows C that well knows of a portable way of communicating between two
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processes - other than RMI. If that could be solved, then you could use JNI
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to interface the JVM.
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I know some people think this would slow the backend down, but it's only
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the instanciation of the JVM thats slow, hence the other reason fork() is
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holding this back. Ideally you would want the JVM to be running with
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PostMaster, and then each backend can then use the JVM as and when necessary.
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Obviously you wouldn't want a JVM in every installation, but there are a
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lot of good reasons to have this capability. For example, as part of the
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course I did this week, we used Tomcat (Servlet/JSP/Web server). Now
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there's no reason why Tomcat could run within the same JVM. JBoss is
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another good example (EJB Server). The JBoss team have actually got Tomcat
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to run within the same JVM. Doesn't hinder performance at all, but does
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reduce the memory footprint.
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This is a good future thing to look into (why not for 8.0 ;-) ). If we
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could find an _optional_ way of hooking the backend direct into the JVM, we
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could get PostgreSQL into a lot of new areas. It also would make things
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like CORBA etc a doddle.
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PS: I'm writing down notes of the course to go onto the JDBC web site this
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weekend, so there's some nice things for EJB, RMI, Corba etc.
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More later, Peter
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From pgsql-hackers-owner+M4153@postgresql.org Sat Feb 3 11:54:12 2001
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Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 17:56:33 +0100 (CET)
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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
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To: Peter Mount <peter@retep.org.uk>
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cc: Alex Pilosov <alex@pilosoft.com>, tomasz konefal <twkonefal@yahoo.ca>,
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Subject: Re: [HACKERS] TODO list: Allow Java server-side programming
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Peter Mount writes:
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> Thats correct. Basically you are talking of something like PL/Java. The
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> Java side would be simple, but its linking the JVM to the backend that's
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> the problem.
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I've tried that recently, here's how it looks as far as Linux JVMs go:
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* Kaffe has a very polluted name space. Calls to its own functions get
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resolved to PostgreSQL, and vice versa. Crash and burn result. The Kaffe
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folks have admitted that this should be fixed but I didn't look farther
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yet.
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* The Sun/Blackdown JVM didn't work at all (not even 'java -version')
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until I upgraded my libc. Then a simple test run crashes with an "error
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external to JVM"; at first it looked like a segfault when referencing a
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string constant. In gdb I saw myself faced with about 10 threads running
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when nothing was going on yet, at which point I was too exhausted to
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proceed.
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* IBM's offering didn't work at all. I don't recall the problem anymore
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but I think it didn't even link correctly.
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So currently I don't see how this could become a mainstream project, let
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alone across platforms.
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> I know some people think this would slow the backend down, but it's only
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> the instanciation of the JVM thats slow, hence the other reason fork() is
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> holding this back. Ideally you would want the JVM to be running with
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> PostMaster, and then each backend can then use the JVM as and when necessary.
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But how do the other languages cope? Starting up a new Perl for each
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backend can't be so cheap either.
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--
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Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net http://yi.org/peter-e/
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From pgsql-hackers-owner+M4154@postgresql.org Sat Feb 3 12:37:02 2001
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Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 12:36:01 -0500 (EST)
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From: Alex Pilosov <alex@pilosoft.com>
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To: Peter Mount <peter@retep.org.uk>
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cc: Alex Pilosov <alex@pilosoft.com>, tomasz konefal <twkonefal@yahoo.ca>,
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pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
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Subject: Re: [HACKERS] TODO list: Allow Java server-side programming
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On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, Peter Mount wrote:
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> It's been a while since I delved into the backend, but unless it's
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> changed from fork() to threading, I don't really see this happening,
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> unless someone who knows C that well knows of a portable way of
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> communicating between two processes - other than RMI. If that could be
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> solved, then you could use JNI to interface the JVM.
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There are many ways one can do this:
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a) each backend will have a JVM linked in (shared object). This is the
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way perl/tcl/ruby is embedded, and it works pretty nice. But, Java
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['s memory requirement] sucks, therefore, this may not be the optimal
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way.
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> I know some people think this would slow the backend down, but it's
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> only the instanciation of the JVM thats slow, hence the other reason
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> fork() is holding this back. Ideally you would want the JVM to be
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> running with PostMaster, and then each backend can then use the JVM as
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> and when necessary.
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b) since JVM is threaded, it may be more efficient to have a dedicated
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process running JVM, and accepting some sort of IPC connections from
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postgres processes. The biggest problem here is SPI, there aren't a good
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way for that JVM to talk back to database.
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c) temporarily, to have quick working code, you can reach java using hacks
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using programming languages already built into postgres. Both TCL (tcl
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blend) and Perl (JPL and another hack which name escapes me) are able to
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execute java code. SPI is possible, I think both of these bindings are
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two-way (you can go perl-java-perl-java). Might be worth a quick try?
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-alex
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pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
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Subject: Re: [HACKERS] TODO list: Allow Java server-side programming
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Peter Mount wrote:
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> At 14:57 02/02/01 -0500, Alex Pilosov wrote:
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> >On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, tomasz konefal wrote:
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> >
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> > > could someone please clarify what "Allow Java
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> > > server-side programming" actually means? what are the
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> > > limitations of using java and jdbc with pgsql?
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> >
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> >It means to embed Java interpreter inside postgres, and allow writing
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> >stored procedures and triggers in Java.
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>
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> Thats correct. Basically you are talking of something like PL/Java. The
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> Java side would be simple, but its linking the JVM to the backend that's
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> the problem.
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>
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> It's been a while since I delved into the backend, but unless it's changed
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> from fork() to threading,
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Someone posted here recently his port/tweaks of backend so that it used
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threads instead of fork(). IIRC it was done to be used inside a java
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client in an embedded system.
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Hannu
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From: Peter Mount <peter@retep.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [HACKERS] TODO list: Allow Java server-side programming
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At 17:56 03/02/01 +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
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>Peter Mount writes:
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>
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> > Thats correct. Basically you are talking of something like PL/Java. The
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> > Java side would be simple, but its linking the JVM to the backend that's
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> > the problem.
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>
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>I've tried that recently, here's how it looks as far as Linux JVMs go:
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[snip]
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>So currently I don't see how this could become a mainstream project, let
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>alone across platforms.
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I don't think it would be, but it would be a good side-project. Over time
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the various JVM's should become better to interface with.
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> > I know some people think this would slow the backend down, but it's only
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> > the instanciation of the JVM thats slow, hence the other reason fork() is
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> > holding this back. Ideally you would want the JVM to be running with
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> > PostMaster, and then each backend can then use the JVM as and when
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> necessary.
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>
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>But how do the other languages cope? Starting up a new Perl for each
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>backend can't be so cheap either.
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But a lot cheaper than Java.
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Peter
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From pgsql-hackers-owner+M4169@postgresql.org Sun Feb 4 06:57:24 2001
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Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 11:54:20 +0000
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To: Alex Pilosov <alex@pilosoft.com>
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From: Peter Mount <peter@retep.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [HACKERS] TODO list: Allow Java server-side programming
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At 12:36 03/02/01 -0500, Alex Pilosov wrote:
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>On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, Peter Mount wrote:
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[snip]
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> > I know some people think this would slow the backend down, but it's
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> > only the instanciation of the JVM thats slow, hence the other reason
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> > fork() is holding this back. Ideally you would want the JVM to be
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> > running with PostMaster, and then each backend can then use the JVM as
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> > and when necessary.
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>b) since JVM is threaded, it may be more efficient to have a dedicated
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>process running JVM, and accepting some sort of IPC connections from
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>postgres processes. The biggest problem here is SPI, there aren't a good
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>way for that JVM to talk back to database.
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That was my other idea, but it is the IPC thats problematical. You would
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still need to do some native api to implement some messaging system between
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the two.
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However, at the other extreme there is RPC, which is possible now, but
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would be a lot slower.
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>c) temporarily, to have quick working code, you can reach java using hacks
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>using programming languages already built into postgres. Both TCL (tcl
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>blend) and Perl (JPL and another hack which name escapes me) are able to
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>execute java code. SPI is possible, I think both of these bindings are
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>two-way (you can go perl-java-perl-java). Might be worth a quick try?
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Might be one way to go...
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Peter
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>-alex
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>
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From: "Dave Cramer" <Dave@micro-automation.net>
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To: "'Barry Lind'" <barry@xythos.com>
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Subject: [JDBC] RE: Todo/missing? (was Re: [ADMIN] High memory usage [PATCH])
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Barry,
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The getXXXFunctions aren't implemented
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Some of the other functions are correct for version 7.1 but not for
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previous versions. Ie. The row length, etc. I think the driver should
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get the version and determine what is correct for each version.
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I think this is incorrect.
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public boolean supportsSelectForUpdate() throws SQLException
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{
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// XXX-Not Implemented
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}
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There are a number of things here which are hard coded, and possible
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wrong.
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I started to work on this, but since I am going on vacation next week I
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have a number of fires to get down to a slow burn before I go.
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Dave
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-----Original Message-----
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From: Barry Lind [mailto:barry@xythos.com]
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Sent: June 26, 2001 9:22 PM
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To: Dave Cramer
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Cc: pgsql-jdbc@postgresql.org
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Subject: Re: Todo/missing? (was Re: [ADMIN] High memory usage [PATCH])
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Dave,
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Can you give a little more detail on what you mean by 'Improved
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DatabaseMetaData'? What specific areas are currently lacking?
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thanks,
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--Barry
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>>On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 10:56:18PM -0400, Dave Cramer wrote:
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>>
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>>>I have to agree, we need to compile a todo list.
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>>>
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>>>Mine would include:
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>>>
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>>>1) Comprehensive test suite. This may be available already.
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>>>2) Updateable resultSet
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>>>3) Improved DatabaseMetaData
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>>>4) Compatible blob support
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>>>
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>
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> Added to official PostgreSQL TODO:
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>
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> * JDBC
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> * Comprehensive test suite. This may be available already.
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> * Updateable resultSet
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> * Improved DatabaseMetaData
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> * Compatible blob support
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>
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>
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Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 00:55:37 +0200 (CEST)
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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
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To: <pgsql-jdbc@postgresql.org>
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Subject: [JDBC] To do list for DatabaseMetaData
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Since DatabaseMetaData seems to have been a subject of interest lately I
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have composed a list of concrete things that need to be done there.
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The spec of DatabaseMetaData is here:
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http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/api/java/sql/DatabaseMetaData.html
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All the functions listed in the spec and not listed below I have recently
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checked and updated for correctness and compliance. Thus, this list is
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complete. Functions marked with '?' I have not checked yet.
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If someone wants to tackle some of the getThings() functions, a
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description of the system catalogs is in the Developer's Guide. Also note
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that some functions currently incorrectly handle the case of null patterns
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vs. "" patterns vs. "%" patterns.
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At least two parameters obtained by a DatabaseMetaData method are
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user-tunable on the server side. The only way to get at those numbers
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currently is to use SHOW and parse the NOTICE: it sends back (which is
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impossible in the days of internationalized messages), so a nice
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side-project would be to implement a get_config_variable(text) returns
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text (better names possible) function to allow easier access.
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Now the list:
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allProceduresAreCallable() not all procedures listed are
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callable (triggers, in/out)
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allTablesAreSelectable() should this check access
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privileges or what?
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getSQLKeywords() outdated, could be automated like
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keywords.sgml
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getNumericFunctions() decide what exactly is a "numeric function"?
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getStringFunctions() ditto
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getSystemFunctions() ditto
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getTimeDateFunctions() ditto
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getExtraNameCharacters() server allows \200 to \377, how
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does this fit in with Unicode?
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getMaxColumnNameLength() 32 is hard-coded here, maybe query server
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getMaxColumnsInIndex() this should be detected from server
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getMaxColumnsInTable() this limit is probably shaky
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getMaxConnections() could query the server for this
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(SHOW, see above)
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getMaxCursorNameLength() 32 hard-coded
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getMaxSchemaNameLength() will be 32 when done
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getMaxProcedureNameLength() 32 hard-coded
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getMaxCatalogNameLength() should be NAMEDATALEN
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doesMaxRowSizeIncludeBlobs() since we don't have blobs, should
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this throw an exception?
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getMaxStatements() questionable, see comment there
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getMaxTableNameLength() 32 hard-coded
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getMaxUserNameLength() 32 hard-coded
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getDefaultTransactionIsolation() This is configurable in 7.2.
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(SHOW, see above)
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getProcedures() missing catalog (database) and
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remarks columns
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getProcedureColumns() only dummy implementation
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getTables() fails to handle pre-7.1 servers
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(relkind 'v')
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getSchemas() This should throw an exception.
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getTableTypes() ?
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getColumns() ?
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getColumnPrivileges() not implemented
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getTablePrivileges() not implemented
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getBestRowIdentifier() only dummy implementation
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getVersionColumns() not implemented
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getPrimaryKeys() ?
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getImportedKeys() ?
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getExportedKeys() not implemented
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getCrossReference() not implemented
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getTypeInfo() ?
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getIndexInfo() ?
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getUDTs() ?
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--
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Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter
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note - i don't work for any of the companies whose products
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are mentioned below. i have performed evaluations of these
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products and the support provided when attempting to determine
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what platform my company's systems should run on. unfortunately,
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i did not choose orion and i am suffering for it now...
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some goober blathered thusly:
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> Have you ever actually used Java on an enterprise-level
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> application? Ever see the Tomcat webserver? It uses
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> 100MB of memory, drives the load on our server up to 8,
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> and doesn't serve nearly as fast apache. Do you really
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> want that in your database?
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first - don't complain about java because you or someone
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in your group/department/company made a poor decision on
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what tools to use. that's like complaining about mexican
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food when the only experience you have is eating an out-
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dated frozen burrito from the 7-11 freezer.
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when looking at the performance of java you have to take
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a look at two things - first you have to compare various
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java implementations against each other and then you have
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to compare the best java implementations against native
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c/c++ code. the following link does that. the java tests
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include tomcat, orion, websphere, and resin. jrun and
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weblogic were originally included in the testing but
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were both removed at their companies' request.
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the tests also compare orion vs microsoft asp running on
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win2k and iis5. all tests run on the same hardware.
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what i believe these tests clearly demonstrate is that
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java is not the problem, the implementation applications
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based on java is. i also do not believe that tomcat is
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a fair representation of java performance in that it is
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intended to be a reference implementation. as such, the
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code base should sacrifice performance for clarity.
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http://www.orionserver.com/benchmarks/benchmark.html
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while not in the benchmark i would also like to
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recommend jetty as an app server. it is an opensource,
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100% java web and application server. in its base form
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it is "just" a web, servlet, and jsp engine. it does,
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however, have contributed code providing integration
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with other j2ee opensource projects such as the JBoss
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EJB engine.
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you can find the jetty home page at:
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http://jetty.mortbay.com/
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and then they blathered some more:
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> Compare the speed of Oracle 8 with 8i if you don't
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> believe me. The stability is also much worse. Ever
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> see a JVM on any platform that didn't crash if you
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> looked at it cockeyed? Ever really trust the garbage
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> collection? I don't. I've found a memory leak in IBM
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> developed java libraries. Gotta restart that app
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> every once in a while to reclaim system resources it
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> gobbled up and never gave back.
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some mention was made regarding the performance of
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the oracle8i application server. well, oracle has
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realized that their performance was sub-optimal and
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rectified the situation by licensing the orion server
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for oracle9i. while money and politics most certainly
|
|
play a part in any licensing arrangement they must
|
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also realize that making customers happy through the
|
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performance of their applications will lead to more
|
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money. the link to the press release is below.
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http://www.oracle.com/corporate/press/index.html?759347.html
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all of that being said...
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i don't think that the person that started this thread
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did anything wrong by making the request they did. that
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is what opensource is all about - contributions, even
|
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just contributions of ideas, are welcomed. even so, there
|
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are several options that i see for getting it implemented:
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1) its an open source project so implement it yourself.
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while i have never worked on modifying the code base
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i am extremely confident that the current developers
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will be more than willing to give you advice and
|
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pointers.
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2) if #1 is not feasible either because you don't have
|
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the time, the inclination, or the experience then
|
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you can write a contract that will pay one of the
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postgres developers to implement it for you.
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3) if that isn't feasible you can try to get a volunteer
|
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to do so.
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4) if that isn't feasible then you either have to live
|
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with what you have, go elsewhere, or be quiet.
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to the person that blathered thusly in response to the
|
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request for java:
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> Merits of the language notwithstanding, I'd rather
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> not have a buggy, still under development
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> (depreciating everything under the sun with every
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> new iteration) JVM parasite in my DB.
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informed and intelligent debate is good. given that i
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believe such to be true, i would request that you
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refrain from blathering such vitriol and uninformed
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Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 22:35:23 -0400 (EDT)
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From: Alex Pilosov <alex@pilosoft.com>
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To: Alex Knight <knight@phunc.com>
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Subject: [WAY OT] Re: [GENERAL] PL/java?
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On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Alex Knight wrote:
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> It is generally wiser to split the webservers from the appservers;
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> that will save on memory footprints from each respectively. That alone
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> can give each machine a specific task to accomplish... generally more
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> efficiently. But I would assume you know this.
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And it is wise to split database from middleware, and not try to saddle
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PostgreSQL with requirements to support Java in-process. _IF_ java stored
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procedures are implemented, it should be via something like a) oracle's
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extproc (start a separate process to load the function) b) some of perl
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java tools (they start a jdk in a separate process and communicate with it
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using RMI).
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Problem with java-pgsql integration is the threads model: Java really
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really wants threads. Postgres doesn't do threads. So if most simple way
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is attempted, you will incur overhead of starting up JVM for each backend
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(a few seconds as opposed to milliseconds) and non-shared 30M of memory
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per backend (as opposed to currently <3 megs of non-shared memory per
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backend).
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> Using something like WebLogic, WebSphere, or Orion would be a wiser
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> approach. For the company with the low budget, Orion is only something
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> like $2000, and it has full J2EE support, including EJBs, etc. Try
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> finding that kind of richness in Tomcat. Also, Orion takes up only
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> 40-50mb at start, which is really fairly reasonable; ram is cheap
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> anyways... a server that has to perform complicated algorithms to a
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> large audience but has hardly any ram shouldn't be on the internet
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> anyways; unless it can handle it.
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_ONLY_ 40-50Mb?! Egads, I'm hard pressed to find any other piece of
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(non-windows, non-java) software that takes 40-50M just to start up!
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I worked with both CrapLogic and CrapSphere. Weblogic takes 20-60 seconds
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to start up on P3-800, that, IMHO, is ridiculous.
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It is not only issue of memory, its easy to throw memory at the problem,
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its an issue of _incremental use_ of memory. As you scale
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> I feel that you don't really have enough experience with _java_ to
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> judge it accurately. Frankly, the JVM is quite small nowadays,
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> considering the amount of base classes that sit in memory much of the
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> time. And the JVMs are really much faster these days. Java is still
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> slow for 2 reasons: 1) Developers who don't optimize their code as
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> they write it, 2) Bytecode interpretation is and probably never will
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> be as fast as something like C/C++. But it certainly isn't the JVM
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> itself slowing it down because of some "extended memory" that it lives
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> in. Any reasonable server should have absolutely no problems if the
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> jvm is implemented _properly_ (which many packages do not do), etc. If
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> you're comparing Java to perl, yes, certainly it's a bit more of a
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> beast, but perl quite simply can't keep up in speed and feature
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> richness (when was the last time you secured your perl code in a
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> redistributable fashion?)
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_WHY_ the heck do all base classes need to be in memory all the time? Why
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are they so huge? Libc is _far far_ smaller, and libstdc++ is tiny
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compared to all the java standard library.
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You know what the answer to it is: Because they are ALL written in java,
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as opposed to more sane languages like perl which handcode their "standard
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libraries" or the most important pieces of them in C.
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Perl is far faster than java in about any practical application I did.
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Again, the issue is not speed of JVM versus PP (perl virtual machine), if
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you did number crunching in perl and java, they would probably be at par.
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Its an issue of standard libraries. They are _horribly slow_. Perl's
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hashtables are a very nice piece of optimized C code. Java's hashtables
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are written in Java. Need I say more? Java's AWT was a dog. Swing is a dog
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and a half, because they reimplemented all the things that are commonly
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done in C in Java.
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> The only mistake the developers can make is poorly implementing the
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> jvm, but most certainly not Java itself. I've been working on
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> architecting and building enterprise level sites and applications for
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> nearly 8 years now, and I've seen too many people try to implement
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> perl cgi websites for enterprise sites and watch them choke and crawl
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> to their knees because of poor system resource handling, lack of
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> scalability, etc... I most certainly don't consider a single webserver
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> with an appserver and tiny database to be enterprise level either (not
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> that I'm inferring you said it was).
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You cannot compare a perl CGI script and a J2EE server. Its like comparing
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a webserver you wrote yourself vs apache! There are application servers
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(or more closely, code libraries) for perl that match what J2EE provides.
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