Re: patches for items from TODO list

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
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Subject: Re: patches for items from TODO list
Date: 2005-05-21 02:41:44
Message-ID: 200505201941.44205.josh@agliodbs.com
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Folks,

> - The COPY -> XML transformation is trivial -- it would be easy for
> clients to roll their own. At the same time, there is no standard or
> canonical XML representation for COPY output, and I can easily imagine
> different clients needing different representations. So there is limited
> value in providing a single, inflexible backend implementation.

I'm going to second Neil here. This feature becomes useful *only* when there
is a certified or de-facto universal standard XML representation for database
data. Then I could see a case for it. But there isn't.

Feel free to throw it on pgFoundry, though.

--
Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco

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