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Re: PostgreSQL vs SQL/XML Standards

Andreas Karlsson <andreas@proxel.se>

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From: Andreas Karlsson <andreas@proxel.se>
To: Chapman Flack <chap@anastigmatix.net>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2018-10-25T15:23:56Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On 10/25/2018 03:53 PM, 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.

The libraries we depend on should really either be available in the 
package repositories of the major Linux distribution or be something we 
can put in our own repository and maintain without too much pain. So 
using Saxon/C does not seem like a realistic option.

Andreas

Commits

  1. Improve documentation about our XML functionality

  2. Improve documentation about our XML functionality.

  3. Add volatile qualifier missed in commit 2e616dee9.

  4. Fix crash with old libxml2

  5. Fix minor deficiencies in XMLTABLE, xpath(), xmlexists()

  6. Fix the BY {REF,VALUE} clause of XMLEXISTS/XMLTABLE

  7. doc: Update README.links

  8. XPath fixes: