Re: XML ouput for psql

From: Sean Chittenden <sean(at)chittenden(dot)org>
To: Bob Calco <robert(dot)calco(at)verizon(dot)net>
Cc: Merlin Moncure <merlin(dot)moncure(at)rcsonline(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: XML ouput for psql
Date: 2003-03-06 00:50:49
Message-ID: 20030306005049.GY79234@perrin.int.nxad.com
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> I like PostgreSQL just as it is, and truth be told, I'd like to see some
> additional features in PL/pgSQL that are completely unrelated to the whole
> XML issue. But I see some interesting possibilities for PostgreSQL to make
> inroads in enterprise development if it were the first open source database
> to do something truly useful with XQuery concepts.

Um, why change the backend at all? Why not have libpq do the
interference mapping between the front end and backend so that we can
leave the backend alone? Seems like a simple application of a good
SAX parser to me. -sc

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Sean Chittenden

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