| From: | Dave Page <dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Mike Rylander <mrylander(at)gmail(dot)com>, nikolay(at)samokhvalov(dot)com, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [PATCHES] xml2 contrib patch supporting default XML namespaces |
| Date: | 2007-03-22 21:15:18 |
| Message-ID: | 4602F1E6.8040509@postgresql.org |
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> I was hoping that we're deprecating contrib/xml2, so I wouldn't add more
>> features to it.
>
> Author states:
>
>> I understand that XML support is planned and at least partially
>> implemented for 8.3, but many production instances will be unable (or,
>> in fact, unwilling) to upgrade to 8.3 for quite some time. Because
>> this patch is completely backward compatible it can (theoretically) be
>> included in future 8.1 and 8.2 releases, and for those of us that need
>> more full XML support in the short term the upgrade of a contrib
>> module is probably a very viable option -- it is for me, anyway.
>
But we don't add new features to stable branches, even if they're
backward compatible.
Regards, Dave
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