Re: Initial review of xslt with no limits patch

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Mike Fowler <mike@mlfowler.com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-08-09T14:14:03Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Mike Fowler <mike@mlfowler.com> writes:
> Turns out the bug was filed in 2005 (see 
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=307061). They are currently 
> taking a fairly loose interpretation of the XSLT spec. However that was 
> only one aspect of the concern. The other was that no errors were being 
> reported back in psql when the libxslt is generating errors. Is this 
> desirable?

Uh, no; if we're failing to detect an error that the library does
report, that's our bug (and another indication of the immaturity
of this code :-()).

			regards, tom lane