On 11/03/2014 10:11 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> 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).
>
>
Yes, xpath_table is badly broken, as Robert Haas documented and I
expanded on a while back. See for example
<http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/4D6BCC1E.3010406@dunslane.net> I
don't have any time of my own to work on this any time soon. But I know
that it has users, so just throwing it out would upset some people.
cheers
andrew
