Re: [PATCH] Add XMLEXISTS function from the SQL/XML standard

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

To: Mike Fowler <mike@mlfowler.com>

Cc: Erik Rijkers <er@xs4all.nl>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2010-05-25T16:44:34Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Mike Fowler <mike@mlfowler.com> wrote:
> Erik Rijkers wrote:
>>
>> libxml2.x86_64          2.6.26-2.1.2.8  installed
>> libxml2-devel.x86_64    2.6.26-2.1.2.8  installed
>>
>
> Thanks for testing my patch Erik. It turns out I've got libxml2 installed at
> version 2.7.5. Searching the gnome mailing lists, it turns out
> xmlXPathCompiledEvalToBoolean was added (unbelievably) in the very next
> version from yours, 2.6.27 (see:
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2006-October/msg00119.html).

We're unlikely to accept this patch if it changes the minimum version
of libxml2 required to compile PostgreSQL.

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