Re: [PATCH] Add XMLEXISTS function from the SQL/XML standard

Robert Haas wrote:
> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Mike Fowler <mike(at)mlfowler(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> Erik Rijkers wrote:
>>
>>> libxml2.x86_64 2.6.26-2.1.2.8 installed
>>> libxml2-devel.x86_64 2.6.26-2.1.2.8 installed
>>>
>>>
>> Thanks for testing my patch Erik. It turns out I've got libxml2 installed at
>> version 2.7.5. Searching the gnome mailing lists, it turns out
>> xmlXPathCompiledEvalToBoolean was added (unbelievably) in the very next
>> version from yours, 2.6.27 (see:
>> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2006-October/msg00119.html)
>>
>
> We're unlikely to accept this patch if it changes the minimum version
> of libxml2 required to compile PostgreSQL

Why? 2.6.27 is almost 4 years old.

I realise that my patch didn't update configure and configure.in, and
indeed I didn't think of it when I responded to Erik (I'm too used to
the Java world where people manage their own dependencies). I've now
attached the updated patch which ups the check from version 2.6.23 to
2.6.27.

Regards,

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Mike Fowler
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