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> I thought that 3.4 was going to include
>
> - junctions so that results of multiple parsers could be combined

it is in.

>
> - the ability to run a parser against a user defined macro rather than
> always parsing the complete MESSAGE marcro.

csvparser has a template() option, but dbparser doesn't (though that's trivial to add).

what I had in mind (fully n dimensional patterndb) wasn't finished, and I didn't want to wait any longer.

>
> Did these features fail to make it into 3.4 or is the documentation just
> missing these items?
>

docs is not yet competely updated.

contributions would be welcome there too.