Re: Install XML on Postgres 8.1 - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Shoaib Mir
Subject Re: Install XML on Postgres 8.1
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Msg-id bf54be870701240613t70791c3ay9fc09ec0c1ebb950@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Install XML on Postgres 8.1  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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The following will explain in detail how Oracle handles the XML data and also the indexing and searching mechanism for it:

http://www.oracle.com/technology/oramag/oracle/04-sep/o54xml.html

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Shoaib Mir
EnterpriseDB (www.enterprisedb.com)

On 1/24/07, Peter Eisentraut < peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
Shoaib Mir wrote:
> Do we have XML docs indexing mechanism in the todo's for 8.3? as this
> is one of the problem I faced while moving the Oracle like XML
> functionality to PostgreSQL using xml2 contrib.

Indexing of data types is done in terms of operator classes (or maybe
operator families in 8.3, not sure), but so far no one has proposed to
define any operators whatsoever on the XML type, so I don't see where
any indexing mechanism would come from at the moment.  What does Oracle
offer?

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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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