Re: xmlconcat (was 9.0 release notes done)
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-03-21T15:29:01Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes: >> http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PostgreSQL_9.0_Open_Items > I have just been looking at the xmlconcat bug on that list. I can't > think of any better solution than parsing the resulting string to make > sure it is well-formed before we return, That might be a reasonable thing to do as a safety check, but I can't escape the feeling that what this fundamentally is is a data typing error, traceable to the lack of differentiation between xml documents and xml fragments. Is there a way to attack it based on saying that the inputs can't be documents, or stripping the document overhead if they are? regards, tom lane