Tom Lane wrote:
> "Brendan Jurd" <direvus@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> If we don't want to meddle with xmltype/bytea/VarChar at all, we'll
>>> have to revert those changes, and I'll have to seriously scale back
>>> the cleanup patch I was about to post.
>>>
>
>
>> Still not sure where we stand on the above. To cast, or not to cast?
>>
>
> I dunno. I know there was previously some handwaving about representing
> XML values in some more intelligent fashion than a plain text string,
> but I have no idea if anyone is likely to do anything about it in the
> foreseeable future.
>
>
>
It seems very unlikely to me.
cheers
andrew