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Re: pl/python custom datatype parsers

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

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From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: Jan Urbański <wulczer@wulczer.org>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Hitoshi Harada <umi.tanuki@gmail.com>, Postgres - Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-11-08T21:08:07Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 

On 03/01/2011 11:50 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On fre, 2011-02-11 at 16:49 +0100, Jan Urbański wrote:
>> I believe it's (b). But as we don't have time for that discussion that
>> late in the release cycle, I think we need to consider it identical to (c).
> As I previously mentioned, I think that there should be an SQL-level way
> to tie together languages and types.  I previously mentioned the
> SQL-standard command CREATE TRANSFORM as a possibility.  I've had this
> on my PL/Python TOTHINK list for a while.  Thankfully you removed all
> the items ahead of this one, so I'll think of something to do in 9.2.
>
> Of course we'll be able to use the actual transform code that you
> already wrote.
>

Peter,

Did you make any progress on this?

cheers

andrew