Subject: Re: Transform for pl/perl
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
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Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2017 14:35:04 -0500
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On 12/1/17 13:15, Tom Lane wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 12:30 AM, Michael Paquier
>> <michael.paquier@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Patch moved to CF 2018-01. Perhaps a committer will look at it at some point.
> 
>> FWIW, although I like the idea, I'm not going to work on the patch.  I
>> like Perl, but I neither know its internals nor use plperl.  I hope
>> someone else will be interested.
> 
> I've been assuming (and I imagine other committers think likewise) that
> Peter will pick this up at some point, since the whole transform feature
> was his work to begin with.  If he doesn't want to touch it, maybe he
> should say so explicitly so that other people will feel free to take it.

I'll take a look.

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