Re: Loose ends in PG XML patch

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Nikolay Samokhvalov" <samokhvalov(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Loose ends in PG XML patch
Date: 2007-01-02 10:38:45
Message-ID: 200701021138.48935.peter_e@gmx.net
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Am Sonntag, 24. Dezember 2006 02:44 schrieb Tom Lane:
> * Isn't mapping XMLSERIALIZE to a cast completely wrong? Aside from
> the issue already noted in the code that it won't reverse-list
> correctly, this loses the DOCUMENT-vs-CONTENT flag, which I suppose
> must be important.

It is important, but at the moment it's not so important as to not provide any
standards-conforming method to obtain a character string from XML at all.

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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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