Re: Add Metadata to Postgre SQL

From: Steve Crawford <scrawford(at)pinpointresearch(dot)com>
To: José Pedro Santos <zpsantos1(at)hotmail(dot)com>
Cc: pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Add Metadata to Postgre SQL
Date: 2012-08-14 14:54:11
Message-ID: 502A6693.4080108@pinpointresearch.com
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On 08/14/2012 06:34 AM, José Pedro Santos wrote:
> I'm working with vector but is like that. I just add a new column them
> I will copy the XML file into their..let me see if work.

You can store XML in a text field but if the data is truly well-formed
XML you may be better off defining the column as XML to take advantage
of the operations available on that data type:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/datatype-xml.html
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/functions-xml.html

Cheers,
Steve

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