Re: xpath processing brain dead

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Nikolay Samokhvalov <samokhvalov(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: xpath processing brain dead
Date: 2009-02-26 18:17:18
Message-ID: 29991.1235672238@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> I'm okay with removing this for 8.4, but I think it's too late to
>> change the behavior of 8.3.

> It's never too late to fix a bug.

When the proposed fix involves breaking cases that used to behave
usefully, you need a much stronger argument than that.

regards, tom lane

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