Re: PostgreSQL vs SQL/XML Standards
Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
From: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
To: Markus Winand <markus.winand@winand.at>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>,
Chapman Flack <chap@anastigmatix.net>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>,
PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2018-11-12T09:58:17Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
po 12. 11. 2018 v 6:58 odesílatel Markus Winand <markus.winand@winand.at>
napsal:
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> On 2018-11-9, at 05:07 , Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> wrote:
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> čt 8. 11. 2018 v 15:18 odesílatel Markus Winand <markus.winand@winand.at>
> napsal:
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>> > On 2018-11-6, at 15:23 , Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > po 29. 10. 2018 v 11:45 odesílatel Pavel Stehule <
>> pavel.stehule@gmail.com> napsal:
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>> > po 29. 10. 2018 v 10:11 odesílatel Pavel Stehule <
>> pavel.stehule@gmail.com> napsal:
>> > Hi
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>> > čt 25. 10. 2018 v 21:47 odesílatel Alvaro Herrera <
>> alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> napsal:
>> > On 2018-Oct-25, Pavel Stehule wrote:
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>> > > I am thinking so I can fix some issues related to XMLTABLE. Please,
>> send me
>> > > more examples and test cases.
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>> > Please see Markus Winand's patch that I referenced upthread.
>> >
>> > here is a fix of some XMLTABLE mentioned issues.
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>> > this update allows cast boolean to numeric types from XPath expressions
>> >
>> > Attached patch solves some cast issues mentioned by Chap. It solves
>> issue reported by Markus. I didn't use Markus's code, but it was
>> inspiration for me. I found native solution from libxml2.
>> >
>> > Regards
>> >
>> > Pavel
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>> Better than my patch.
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>> But I think the chunk in xml_xmlnodetoxmltype of my patch is still needed
>> — in one way or the other (see below).
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>> # select * from xmltable('*' PASSING '<e>pre<!--c1--><?pi
>> arg?><![CDATA[&ent1]]><n2>&deep</n2>post</e>' COLUMNS x XML PATH
>> 'node()');
>> x
>> -----------------------------------------
>> prec1arg&ent1<n2>&deep</n2>post
>> (1 row)
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>> Output is not the original XML.
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>> I dug a little further and found another case that doesn’t looks right
>> even with my change to xml_xmlnodetoxmltype applied:
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>> # select * from xmltable('*' PASSING '<e>pre<!--c1--><?pi
>> arg?><![CDATA[&ent1]]><n2>&deep</n2>post</e>' COLUMNS x XML PATH '/');
>> x
>> ---------------------------
>> pre&ent1&deeppost
>> (1 row)
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>> Oracle gives in both cases XML.
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>> To fix that I included XML_DOCUMENT_NODE in the list of nodes that use
>> xmlNodeDump. Now I wonder if that logic should be reversed to use the
>> xmlXPathCastNodeToString branch in a few selected cases but default to the
>> branch xmlNodeDump for all other cases?
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>> I guess those few cases might be XML_ATTRIBUTE_NODE and XML_TEXT_NODE.
>> Regression tests are happy with that approach but I don’t think that proves
>> a lot.
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>> -markus
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>> diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/xml.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/xml.c
>> index 37d85f7..7c1f884 100644
>> --- a/src/backend/utils/adt/xml.c
>> +++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/xml.c
>> @@ -3682,7 +3682,7 @@ xml_xmlnodetoxmltype(xmlNodePtr cur,
>> PgXmlErrorContext *xmlerrcxt)
>> {
>> xmltype *result;
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>> - if (cur->type == XML_ELEMENT_NODE)
>> + if (cur->type != XML_ATTRIBUTE_NODE && cur->type != XML_TEXT_NODE)
>> {
>> xmlBufferPtr buf;
>> xmlNodePtr cur_copy;
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> I used your patch and append regress tests. I checked the result against
> Oracle.
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> Regards
>
> Pavel
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> Fine from my side.
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super
Thank you for investigation and tests, examples.
It is assigned to January commitfest.
Regards
Pavel
> -markus
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Commits
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Improve documentation about our XML functionality
- 728c49779ba8 11.6 landed
- 603a28b44973 10.11 landed
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Improve documentation about our XML functionality.
- 12d46ac392d0 12.0 landed
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Add volatile qualifier missed in commit 2e616dee9.
- b2b819019f44 12.0 landed
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Fix crash with old libxml2
- 2e616dee9e60 12.0 landed
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Fix minor deficiencies in XMLTABLE, xpath(), xmlexists()
- 251cf2e27bec 12.0 cited
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Fix the BY {REF,VALUE} clause of XMLEXISTS/XMLTABLE
- eaaa5986ad03 12.0 landed
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doc: Update README.links
- b060e6c1f5b4 12.0 landed
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XPath fixes:
- 3963574d1338 8.3.0 cited