Re: patch: function xmltable

2016-11-24 18:29 GMT+01:00 Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>:

> Pavel Stehule wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > 2016-11-24 0:13 GMT+01:00 Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>:
> >
> > > Oh my, I just noticed we have a new xpath preprocessor in this patch
> > > too.  Where did this code come from -- did you write it all from
> > > scratch?
> >
> > I wrote it from scratch - libxml2 has not any API for iteration over
> XPath
> > expression (different than iteration over XPath expression result), and
> > what I have info, there will not be any new API in libxml2.
>
> Okay, I agree that the default namespace stuff looks worthwhile in the
> long run.  But I don't have enough time to review the xpath parser stuff
> in the current commitfest, and I think it needs at the very least a lot
> of additional code commentary.
>
> However I think the rest of it can reasonably go in -- I mean the SQL
> parse of it, analysis, executor.  Let me propose this: you split the
> patch, leaving the xpath_parser.c stuff out and XMLNAMESPACES DEFAULT,
> and we introduce just the TableExpr stuff plus the XMLTABLE function.  I
> can commit that part in the current commitfest, and we leave the
> xpath_parser plus associated features for the upcoming commitfest.


> Deal?
>

ok

can me send your last work?

Regards

Pavel


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