Waiting for PostgreSQL 11 – Transforms for jsonb to PL/Python and to PL/Perl

On 28th of March 2018, Peter Eisentraut committed patch:

Transforms for jsonb to PL/Python
 
Add a new contrib module jsonb_plpython that provide a transform between
jsonb and PL/Python.  jsonb values are converted to appropriate Python
types such as dicts and lists, and vice versa.
 
Author: Anthony Bykov <a.bykov@postgrespro.ru>

and then, on 3rd of April 2018, he also committed patch:

Transforms for jsonb to PL/Perl
 
Add a new contrib module jsonb_plperl that provides a transform between
jsonb and PL/Perl.  jsonb values are converted to appropriate Perl types
such as arrays and hashes, and vice versa.
 
Author: Anthony Bykov <a.bykov@postgrespro.ru>

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Waiting for 9.5 – Add transforms feature

On 26th of April, Peter Eisentraut committed patch:

Add transforms feature
 
This provides a mechanism for specifying conversions between SQL data
types and procedural languages.  As examples, there are transforms
for hstore and ltree for PL/Perl and PL/Python.
 
reviews by Pavel Stěhule and Andres Freund

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