Re: pl/python custom datatype parsers

On 11/02/11 16:43, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Jan Urbański <wulczer@wulczer.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.

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).

Cheers,
Jan