Re: remove contrib/xml2

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: remove contrib/xml2
Date: 2010-01-29 03:00:50
Message-ID: 20100129030050.GB1793@alvh.no-ip.org
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Robert Haas escribió:
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
> >> Yeah, we can't really remove it until we have a plausible substitute for
> >> the xpath_table functionality.  This is in the TODO list ...
> >
> > What about moving it to pgfoundry?
> >
> > I'm really not keen on shipping known-broken stuff in /contrib.
>
> Yeah, exactly. Another option - if we know that it works OK with
> inputs of certain types - might be to throw an error if we get an
> input of a type we know it doesn't work with. But I guess I haven't
> followed this closely enough to know exactly what kinds of arguments
> do/don't work.

If it were easy to throw an error, it'd be better to avoid the crash.

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