Re: [HACKERS] contrib\xml2 package's xpath_table function in PostgreSQL

2010-02-01 Thread M Z
I am very interested in doing it. However I am new to postgresql. Could you and anyone here please give me some hint, which way I should, which part of code I should focus to fix it? Thanks, M Z On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Robert Haas wrote: > On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 1:20 PM, M Z wrote: > >

Re: [HACKERS] contrib\xml2 package's xpath_table function in PostgreSQL

2010-02-01 Thread Robert Haas
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 1:20 PM, M Z wrote: > Is there a way to fix it so that those functions are usable in 8.4 without > crashing the server? Nobody seems to be interested enough to figure that out and submit a patch to fix it. If someone does, I think it would have a good chance of being accep

Re: [HACKERS] contrib\xml2 package's xpath_table function in PostgreSQL

2010-02-01 Thread M Z
Is there a way to fix it so that those functions are usable in 8.4 without crashing the server? Thanks, M Z On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Robert Haas wrote: > The functions haven't actually been removed in 8.4, in spite of the > deprecation notice. But it's very easy to use them in a way th

Re: [HACKERS] contrib\xml2 package's xpath_table function in PostgreSQL

2010-02-01 Thread Robert Haas
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 4:00 PM, HX Zheng wrote: > We have a huge system based on PostgreSQL with xml2 functions. From the > PostgreSQL 8.4 documentation F.38.1. Deprecation notice, it looks like those > functions are removed. However, our solution is very huge, and heavily > depends on them. The

[HACKERS] contrib\xml2 package's xpath_table function in PostgreSQL

2010-01-31 Thread HX Zheng
Hi, We have a huge system based on PostgreSQL with xml2 functions. From the PostgreSQL 8.4 documentation F.38.1. Deprecation notice, it looks like those functions are removed. However, our solution is very huge, and heavily depends on them. 1. Could you please give me some instructions to get