Re: WIP: URI connection string support for libpq

On 12/13/2011 08:11 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Because the use of Java/JDBC dwarfs both of your examples combined.
> Don't get me wrong, I love Python (everyone knows this) but in terms
> of where the work is being done it is still in Java for the most part,
> by far.

I was talking about better targeting a new userbase, and I think that
one is quite a bit larger than the current PostgreSQL+JDBC one. I just
don't see any value in feeding them any Java inspired cruft. As for
total size, Peter's comment mentioned having >250,000 installations
using URIs already. While they support other platforms now, I suspect
the majority of those are still running Heroku's original Ruby product
offering. The first link I pointed at was one of the Ruby URI examples.

While I do still have more Java-based customers here, there's enough
Rails ones mixed in that I wouldn't say JDBC dwarfs them anymore even
even for me. As for the rest of the world, I direct you toward
https://github.com/erh/mongo-jdbc as a sign of the times.
"experimental" because there's not much demand for JDBC in web app land
anymore.

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