Re: PostgreSQL vs SQL/XML Standards

ne 13. 1. 2019 v 0:39 odesílatel Chapman Flack <chap(at)anastigmatix(dot)net>
napsal:

> On 12/30/18 03:23, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> > Unfortunately, there is a different releases of libxml2 with different
> > error reporting and it is hard (impossible) to prepare for all variants.
> :-/
> >
> > I prepare xml.out for my FC29 (fresh libxml2) and for no support xml.
> > Other I prepare by patching - and this error (in context) is expected.
>
> It turns out that the variant was already accounted for in the xml_2.out
> variant result file, it just needed to have the new results added.
>
> Done in xmltable-xpath-result-processing-bugfix-4.patch attached.
>
>
> On 12/31/18 01:03, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> > po 31. 12. 2018 v 3:15 odesílatel Chapman Flack <chap(at)anastigmatix(dot)net>
> > napsal:
> >> But the PostgreSQL situation is a little more strange. PG uses BY VALUE
> >> semantics as the default when no passing method is specified. PG also
> uses
> >> BY VALUE semantics when BY REF is explicitly requested, which is rude,
> >> just like Oracle. But why should an explicit specification of BY VALUE
> >> (which is, after all, the semantics we're going to use anyway!) produce
> >> this?
> >>
> >> ERROR: syntax error at or near "value"
> >>
> >> To me, that doesn't seem like least astonishment.
> >>
> >> I am not seeing what would be complicated about removing that
> astonishment
> >> by simply allowing the grammar productions to also consume BY VALUE and
> >> ignore it.
> >
> > ok - I am not against implementation of ignored BY VALUE. But I don't
> like
> > a idea to disable BY REF.
>
> Done in attached xmltable-xmlexists-passing-mechanisms-1.patch along with
> some corresponding documentation adjustments.
>
> I am still working on more extensive documentation, but it seemed best
> to include the changes related to BY REF / BY VALUE in the same patch
> with the grammar change.
>

looks well, thank you for patch

Pavel

> -Chap
>