| From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Scott Bailey <artacus(at)comcast(dot)net> |
| Cc: | hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: xpath_table equivalent |
| Date: | 2009-11-19 14:53:58 |
| Message-ID: | 603c8f070911190653v2f1f02c4m89a88b23180815ab@mail.gmail.com |
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On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 12:03 AM, Scott Bailey <artacus(at)comcast(dot)net> wrote:
> The nice thing about XMLTABLE is that it adds xquery support. I think the
> majority of xquery engines seem to be written in Java. XQuilla is C++. I'm
> not sure if our licensing is compatible, but it I would love the irony of
> using Berkeley DB XML (formerly Sleepycat) now that its owned by Oracle.
It's very much not compatible. Berkeley DB is not free for commercial
use. I anticipate that this would be a problem both for commericial
users of PostgreSQL and also for commercial PostgreSQL forks.
Besides, that's a lot of code to suck into Postgres to do, uh, a lot
of things that we already do in other ways.
...Robert
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