Re: Let's drop two obsolete features which are bear-traps for novices - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Let's drop two obsolete features which are bear-traps for novices
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Msg-id 2481.1415070698@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Let's drop two obsolete features which are bear-traps for novices  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
Responses Re: Let's drop two obsolete features which are bear-traps for novices  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
> On 11/02/2014 11:41 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Nothing that I recall at the moment, but there is certainly plenty of
>> stuff of dubious quality in there.  I'd argue that chkpass, intagg,
>> intarray, isn, spi, and xml2 are all in worse shape than the money type.

> Why are we holding on to xml2 again?

IIRC, there's some xpath-related functionality in there that's not
yet available in core (and needs some redesign before it'd ever get
accepted into core, so there's not a real quick fix to be had).
        regards, tom lane



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