Mike Rylander wrote:
> I understand that XML support is planned and at least partially
> implemented for 8.3, but many production instances will be unable
> (or, in fact, unwilling) to upgrade to 8.3 for quite some time.
> Because this patch is completely backward compatible it can
> (theoretically) be included in future 8.1 and 8.2 releases, and for
> those of us that need more full XML support in the short term the
> upgrade of a contrib module is probably a very viable option -- it is
> for me, anyway.
8.3 contains XPath support which should cover the issue that this patch
addresses. (Might wanna check.) Since we're not going to put new
features into earlier releases, and contrib modules are not necessarily
source backward-compatible, I don't think this patch has a place in a
future PostgreSQL release.
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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/