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.
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Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco