[News.eclipse.technology.eclipselink] Re: What backend DBs are supported

[David Goodenough <david.goodenough@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

James wrote:

> Seems like the formatting did not work, trying again.
> <p>
> EclipseLink supports any relational database that is compliant with SQL
> and has a compliant JDBC driver. EclipsLink has extended support for
> several database platforms. The extended support mainly consists of
> providing native sequencing support, schema creation, and certain database
> functions. These platform classes can be found in the
> org.eclipse.persistence.platform.database and
> org.eclipse.persistence.platform.database.oracle packages.
> <p>
> These include:
> <p>
> Oracle<br>
> Oracle JDBC (8, 9, 10, 11)<br>
> MySQL <br>
> PostgreSQL <br>
> Derby <br>
> DB2 <br>
> DB2 (mainframe) <br>
> Microsoft SQL Server <br>
> Sybase <br>
> Informix <br>
> SQL AnyWhere <br>
> HSQL <br>
> Microsoft Access <br>
> Attunity <br>
> Cloudscape <br>
> DBase <br>
> PointBase <br>
> TimesTen <br>
> <p>
> EclipseLink has extended support for Oracle JDBC drivers. Including:
> <p>
> LOB's <br>
> NChar's <br>
> XMLType's <br>
> TIMESTAMP (TZ, LTZ)'s <br>
> Native batch writing <br>
> Structured object-relational data-types <br>
> PLSQL data-types and stored procedures <br>
> VPD, RAC, proxy authentication <br>
> XDK XML parser <br>
> <p>
> EclipseLink also has support for structure object-relational data-types
> and databases, and Enterprise Information Systems (EIS, legacy datasources
> and messaging platforms).

When I go to select the database type in the workbench, PostgreSQL is not 
one of the choices I am given.  Yet it is in the list above.

David