Re: PostgreSQL vs SQL/XML Standards

čt 25. 10. 2018 v 17:09 odesílatel Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
napsal:

> On 2018-Oct-25, Chapman Flack wrote:
>
> > On 10/25/18 10:39 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> > > I think getting out from under libxml2's idiosyncrasies and security
> > > lapses would be great, but is there a plausible alternative out there?
> >
> > Depends on whether anything in [1] sounds plausible.
> >
> > [1]:
> >
> https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PostgreSQL_vs_SQL/XML_Standards#Possible_ways_forward
>
> Heh, I didn't notice this part of the document. Integrating a C runtime
> of a Java library sounds nightmarish -- I wouldn't even think about
> that.
>
> XQilla seems to depend on Xerces, and seems to have died in 2011.
>
> Zorba appears to have been taken propietary, from the looks of its last
> commits.
>
> Maybe the best way forward is to implement all the JSON functionality
> and remove the SQL/XML bits.
>

It can be bigger compatibility break in Postgres history. SQL/XML functions
are widely used.

Regards

Pavel

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