Re: remove contrib/xml2 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: remove contrib/xml2
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Msg-id 603c8f071001281631k74cd5d7ag1569d9a519f1384a@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: remove contrib/xml2  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
Responses Re: remove contrib/xml2  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
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On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
>> Yeah, we can't really remove it until we have a plausible substitute for
>> the xpath_table functionality.  This is in the TODO list ...
>
> What about moving it to pgfoundry?
>
> I'm really not keen on shipping known-broken stuff in /contrib.

Yeah, exactly.  Another option - if we know that it works OK with
inputs of certain types - might be to throw an error if we get an
input of a type we know it doesn't work with.  But I guess I haven't
followed this closely enough to know exactly what kinds of arguments
do/don't work.

...Robert


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