Re: PostgreSQL's XML support comparison against other RDBMSes

Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
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> On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 02:57:44PM +0400, Ivan Zolotukhin wrote:
> > So let's make such analysis here within PostgreSQL community! There
> > were a lot of talks about XML support in Postgres, but they did not
> > lead to any steady work in this direction. IMHO, it's time to start it
> > now, no?
>
> Quite, lets start with why the module in contrib is not good enough and
> what the various existing XML projects lack.
>
> http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/contrib/xml2/
> http://pgfoundry.org/projects/getxml/
> http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/xpsql/projdisplay.php
>
> As for myself, I've never had XML even come close to my database so I
> have no real interest in this.

As I remember the various XML capabilities asked for in the past were:

query via XML
results via XML
retrive/update parts of the XML document

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