One doesn't know what software really does. One must distinguish what software seems to do and what it really does.
Storing XML really as XML means, storing a lot of redundant information. I don't know, but I cannot believe postgress really stores the full tag names, even when they occur thousand times. I would be really disappointed if they do. Bert Op 14 feb. 2016 17:39 schreef "Karsten Hilbert" <karsten.hilb...@gmx.net>: > On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 12:01:55PM +0100, Bert Verhees wrote: > > > I don't believe that XML-databases actually store XML. Oracle, for > example, > > breaks it up in a relational structure. But I don't know the internals of > > others well. The worst solution, however for storing XML would be really > > storing XML. > > For what it is worth, here is what PostgreSQL does by default: > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/datatype-xml.html > > Karsten > -- > GPG key ID E4071346 @ eu.pool.sks-keyservers.net > E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346 > > _______________________________________________ > openEHR-technical mailing list > openEHR-technical@lists.openehr.org > > http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/listinfo/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org >
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