Re: remove contrib/xml2

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>

To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

Cc: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org

Date: 2010-01-29T03:00:50Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

Robert Haas escribió:
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
> >> Yeah, we can't really remove it until we have a plausible substitute for
> >> the xpath_table functionality.  This is in the TODO list ...
> >
> > What about moving it to pgfoundry?
> >
> > I'm really not keen on shipping known-broken stuff in /contrib.
> 
> Yeah, exactly.  Another option - if we know that it works OK with
> inputs of certain types - might be to throw an error if we get an
> input of a type we know it doesn't work with.  But I guess I haven't
> followed this closely enough to know exactly what kinds of arguments
> do/don't work.

If it were easy to throw an error, it'd be better to avoid the crash.

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