| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Scott Bailey <artacus(at)comcast(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Matthias Brantner <matthias(dot)brantner(at)28msec(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: XQuery support |
| Date: | 2010-02-17 06:31:22 |
| Message-ID: | 20078.1266388282@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Scott Bailey <artacus(at)comcast(dot)net> writes:
> If it were possible to drop the xerces dependency from Zorba and use
> libxml2 for parsing, that would be a strong case for it. The other big
> dependency for Zorba was ICU for converting character sets. I'm not
> familiar with that part of Postgres. But it seems to me that we would
> have our own libraries for that sort of thing.
ICU has been an, ahem, bone of contention. Check the archives.
But a patch that depends on it for some second-order reason seems
unlikely to get accepted.
regards, tom lane
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