Re: PostgreSQL vs SQL/XML Standards

po 12. 11. 2018 v 6:58 odesílatel Markus Winand <markus(dot)winand(at)winand(dot)at>
napsal:

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> On 2018-11-9, at 05:07 , Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> čt 8. 11. 2018 v 15:18 odesílatel Markus Winand <markus(dot)winand(at)winand(dot)at>
> napsal:
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>> > On 2018-11-6, at 15:23 , Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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>> > po 29. 10. 2018 v 11:45 odesílatel Pavel Stehule <
>> pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> napsal:
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>> > po 29. 10. 2018 v 10:11 odesílatel Pavel Stehule <
>> pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> napsal:
>> > Hi
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>> > čt 25. 10. 2018 v 21:47 odesílatel Alvaro Herrera <
>> alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> napsal:
>> > On 2018-Oct-25, Pavel Stehule wrote:
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>> > > I am thinking so I can fix some issues related to XMLTABLE. Please,
>> send me
>> > > more examples and test cases.
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>> > Please see Markus Winand's patch that I referenced upthread.
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>> > here is a fix of some XMLTABLE mentioned issues.
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>> > this update allows cast boolean to numeric types from XPath expressions
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>> > Attached patch solves some cast issues mentioned by Chap. It solves
>> issue reported by Markus. I didn't use Markus's code, but it was
>> inspiration for me. I found native solution from libxml2.
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>> > Regards
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>> > Pavel
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>> Better than my patch.
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>> But I think the chunk in xml_xmlnodetoxmltype of my patch is still needed
>> — in one way or the other (see below).
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>> # select * from xmltable('*' PASSING '<e>pre<!--c1--><?pi
>> arg?><![CDATA[&ent1]]><n2>&amp;deep</n2>post</e>' COLUMNS x XML PATH
>> 'node()');
>> x
>> -----------------------------------------
>> prec1arg&amp;ent1<n2>&amp;deep</n2>post
>> (1 row)
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>> Output is not the original XML.
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>> I dug a little further and found another case that doesn’t looks right
>> even with my change to xml_xmlnodetoxmltype applied:
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>> # select * from xmltable('*' PASSING '<e>pre<!--c1--><?pi
>> arg?><![CDATA[&ent1]]><n2>&amp;deep</n2>post</e>' COLUMNS x XML PATH '/');
>> x
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>> pre&amp;ent1&amp;deeppost
>> (1 row)
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>> Oracle gives in both cases XML.
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>> To fix that I included XML_DOCUMENT_NODE in the list of nodes that use
>> xmlNodeDump. Now I wonder if that logic should be reversed to use the
>> xmlXPathCastNodeToString branch in a few selected cases but default to the
>> branch xmlNodeDump for all other cases?
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>> I guess those few cases might be XML_ATTRIBUTE_NODE and XML_TEXT_NODE.
>> Regression tests are happy with that approach but I don’t think that proves
>> a lot.
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>> -markus
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>> diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/xml.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/xml.c
>> index 37d85f7..7c1f884 100644
>> --- a/src/backend/utils/adt/xml.c
>> +++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/xml.c
>> @@ -3682,7 +3682,7 @@ xml_xmlnodetoxmltype(xmlNodePtr cur,
>> PgXmlErrorContext *xmlerrcxt)
>> {
>> xmltype *result;
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>> - if (cur->type == XML_ELEMENT_NODE)
>> + if (cur->type != XML_ATTRIBUTE_NODE && cur->type != XML_TEXT_NODE)
>> {
>> xmlBufferPtr buf;
>> xmlNodePtr cur_copy;
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> I used your patch and append regress tests. I checked the result against
> Oracle.
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> Regards
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> Pavel
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> Fine from my side.
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super

Thank you for investigation and tests, examples.

It is assigned to January commitfest.

Regards

Pavel

> -markus
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