Re: Install XML on Postgres 8.1

The following will explain in detail how Oracle handles the XML data and
also the indexing and searching mechanism for it:

http://www.oracle.com/technology/oramag/oracle/04-sep/o54xml.html

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Shoaib Mir
EnterpriseDB (www.enterprisedb.com)

On 1/24/07, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
>
> Shoaib Mir wrote:
> > Do we have XML docs indexing mechanism in the todo's for 8.3? as this
> > is one of the problem I faced while moving the Oracle like XML
> > functionality to PostgreSQL using xml2 contrib.
>
> Indexing of data types is done in terms of operator classes (or maybe
> operator families in 8.3, not sure), but so far no one has proposed to
> define any operators whatsoever on the XML type, so I don't see where
> any indexing mechanism would come from at the moment. What does Oracle
> offer?
>
> --
> Peter Eisentraut
> http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/
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