--On 24. Mai 2008 18:51:17 +0200 Brian Sutherland <brian@vanguardistas.net> wrote:
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 06:23:01PM +0200, Andreas Jung wrote:
--On 24. Mai 2008 17:57:17 +0200 Brian Sutherland <brian@vanguardistas.net> wrote:
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 11:28:37AM +0200, Andreas Jung wrote:
- how do you deal with hierarchical or semi-structured data (e.g. SGML, XML)?
As a side note, PostgreSQL 8.3 has a native XML column type. It's fairly basic still, but you can create indexes based on xpath queries.
Jup. Postgres already had in version 7 XML support as an add-on...but pretty much unusable for the production
Interesting, why not?
I'm finding it incredibly useful, but then maybe my needs are very simple.
An important functionality would be being able to modify nodes of an XML document in-place. Storing and querying using xpath is only one part of the story. Andreas