Re: remove contrib/xml2

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

To: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>

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

Date: 2010-01-29T00:31:17Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

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.

...Robert