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Re: PostgreSQL vs SQL/XML Standards

Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Andreas Karlsson <andreas@proxel.se>, 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: 2018-10-25T18:33:22Z
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On 10/25/2018 11:23 AM, Andreas Karlsson wrote:
> 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.
>


Yeah, very good point. xqilla/xerces-C appears to be widely available 
(Centos and ubuntu, at least).

cheers

andrew

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