Re: patches for items from TODO list - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: patches for items from TODO list
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Msg-id 200505280412.j4S4CiT03045@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: patches for items from TODO list  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
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I have removed the XML TODO item:
* Add XML output to pg_dump and COPY  We already allow XML to be stored in the database, and XPath queries  can be used
onthat data using /contrib/xml2. It also supports XSLT  transformations.
 

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Josh Berkus wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> > - The COPY -> XML transformation is trivial -- it would be easy for
> > clients to roll their own. At the same time, there is no standard or
> > canonical XML representation for COPY output, and I can easily imagine
> > different clients needing different representations. So there is limited
> > value in providing a single, inflexible backend implementation.
> 
> I'm going to second Neil here.   This feature becomes useful *only* when there 
> is a certified or de-facto universal standard XML representation for database 
> data.   Then I could see a case for it.  But there isn't.   
> 
> Feel free to throw it on pgFoundry, though.
> 
> -- 
> Josh Berkus
> Aglio Database Solutions
> San Francisco
> 
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