Re: PostgreSQL Top 10 Wishlist - Mailing list pgsql-general

From John Gray
Subject Re: PostgreSQL Top 10 Wishlist
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Msg-id pan.2006.01.13.19.59.25.9260@azuli.co.uk
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In response to PostgreSQL Top 10 Wishlist  ("rlee0001" <robeddielee@hotmail.com>)
List pgsql-general
Robert,

Others have covered some of your topics.

On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 20:51:44 -0800, rlee0001 wrote:

> 7.
> An XML field type and associated XPath/DOM functions. Other exotic
> field types like Image might be nice for some people as well. But XML
> would be awesome.
>

The contrib module xml2 (in the core source distribution and also
built in some bianry versions) provides some support functions for XPath,
where you store the documents in columns of type text. There is also a
project, XpSQL that does decomposition of XML documents - see
http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/xpsql/projdisplay.php

> Just some stupid ideas.

It's always valuable to see what people are interested in - but there are
sometimes reasons why it's not seen as practical or appropriate (standards
compliance, namespace pollution etc.) to include a requested feature.

Regards

John


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