Re: Decomposing xml into table

From: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Surafel Temesgen <surafel3000(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Decomposing xml into table
Date: 2020-06-22 18:59:00
Message-ID: CAFj8pRDUa5p68SYeEuHDxCGaa7Pm7gzfapNzO5iYo8aDZhVBfQ@mail.gmail.com
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po 22. 6. 2020 v 20:49 odesílatel Surafel Temesgen <surafel3000(at)gmail(dot)com>
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> In PostgreSQL there are a function table_to_xml to map the table content
> to xml value but there are no functionality to decompose xml back into
> table which can be used in system that uses xml for transport only or there
> are a need to migrate to database system to use database functionality. I
> propose to have this by extending copy to handle xml format as well because
> file parsing and tuple formation functions is in there and it also seems to
> me that implement it without using xml library is simpler
>

Did you try the xmltable function?

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/functions-xml.html

Regards

Pavel

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