Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> I also think that psql is not the place to implement something like this.

Agreed.

> It's most likely best put in the backend, as a function like
>     xmlfoo('select * from t1;')

That seems a little bizarre.  Wouldn't we want to have a switch that
just flips the SELECT output format from one style to the other?

This is also a good time to stop and ask whether the frontend/backend
protocol needs to change to support this.  Not having read the spec,
I have no idea what the low-level transport needs are for XML output,
but I suspect our present protocol is not it ...

			regards, tom lane

In response to

• Re: XML ouput for psql at 2003-03-05 22:37:35 from Peter Eisentraut

Responses

• Re: XML ouput for psql at 2003-03-06 01:32:04 from Joe Conway
• Re: XML ouput for psql at 2003-03-06 02:10:33 from cbbrowne
• Re: XML ouput for psql at 2003-03-06 23:08:17 from Peter Eisentraut

pgsql-hackers by date

Next:	From: Sean Chittenden	Date: 2003-03-06 00:50:49
	Subject: Re: XML ouput for psql
Previous:	From: Bob Calco	Date: 2003-03-06 00:05:38
	Subject: Re: XML ouput for psql

pgsql-patches by date

Next:	From: Joe Conway	Date: 2003-03-06 01:32:04
	Subject: Re: XML ouput for psql
Previous:	From: Peter Eisentraut	Date: 2003-03-05 22:38:27
	Subject: Re: XML ouput for psql