Re: is GiST still alive?

Do this:

1. Create a new type called 'xml', based on text.

2. The xmlin function for that type will validate what you are
enterering is XML

3. Create new functions to implement XPath, SAX, etc. on the xml type.

4. Extend the contrib/ltree gist-based tree indexing scheme to work on
xml and hence the operations in no.3 above are really fast...

Chris

Andrew Dunstan wrote:

> Christopher Browne wrote:
>
>> But I think back to the XML generator I wrote for GnuCash; it has the
>> notion of building up a hierarchy of entities and attributes, each of
>> which is visible as an identifyable object of some sort. Mapping that
>> onto a set of PostgreSQL relations wouldn't work terribly well.
>>
>>
>
> *nod* I have tried this several times - it just doesn't work well,
> because the maps are too different.
>
> You could do something like this:
> . a table for each element type, fields being the attributes, plus the
> node id.
> . a table to tie everything together (parent_id, child_id,
> child_order, child_type).
> In theory you could even generate the DB schema from an XML schema and
> evaluate it with XPath-like expressions.
>
> But why put yourself to such bother? I have never found a good reason to
> do this sort of thing.
>
> cheers
>
> andrew
>
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