| From: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: remove contrib/xml2 |
| Date: | 2010-01-28 21:18:13 |
| Message-ID: | 4B61FF15.5080605@dunslane.net |
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Robert Haas wrote:
> There has been some more discussion lately of problems caused by contrib/xml2.
>
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2010-01/msg00251.php
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2010-01/msg00198.php
>
> I think we need to either (1) fix the bugs and update the
> documentation to remove the statement that this will be removed or (2)
> actually remove it. Nobody seems interested in #1, so PFA a patch to
> do #2. It also rips out all the libxslt stuff, which seems to exist
> only for the purpose of supporting contrib/xml2.
>
The problem is that there are people who use the XSLT and xpath_table
stuff on text data and so don't run into these bugs.
I agree it's a mess but I don't think just abandoning the functionality
is a good idea.
cheers
andrew
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