Re: JAVA Support - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Kris Jurka
Subject Re: JAVA Support
Date
Msg-id Pine.BSO.4.63.0609281247340.24824@leary2.csoft.net
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In response to JAVA Support  ("Henry B. Hotz" <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>)
Responses Re: JAVA Support  ("Henry B. Hotz" <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>)
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On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, Henry B. Hotz wrote:

> It appears that the JDBC client doesn't include the Kerberos support 
> that the C clients do.

Java doesn't have accessible Kerberos support.  It wraps Kerberos in 
GSSAPI which requires the server to support GSSAPI instead of plain 
Kerberos.

> So, two questions:
>
> 1) Is there an alternative JDBC client that's just a glue layer instead of a 
> complete re-implementation?

No, there aren't any Type 2 drivers around.  Requiring native code is a 
giant pain.

Kris Jurka




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