Re: pl/python custom datatype parsers

On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Jan Urbański <wulczer(at)wulczer(dot)org> wrote:
>> That's it for now. It is an exciting feature and plpython will be the
>> first language to think of when you're building "object database" if
>> this feature is in. The design here will affect following pl/perl and
>> other so it is important enough to discuss.
>
> Yes, I ended up writing this patch as a PoC of how you can integrate
> procedural languages with arbitrary addon modules, so it would be good
> to have a discussion about the general mechanisms. I'm aware that this
> discussion, and subsequently this patch, might be punted to 9.2
> (although that would be a shame).

It's not clear to me from this discussion whether this patch (a) now
works and has consensus, and should be committed, (b) still needs more
discussion, but hopes to make it into 9.1, or (c) is now 9.2 material.

Can someone please clarify?

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