The following will explain in detail how Oracle handles the XML data and also the indexing and searching mechanism for it:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/oramag/oracle/04-sep/o54xml.html ------------- Shoaib Mir EnterpriseDB (www.enterprisedb.com) On 1/24/07, Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Shoaib Mir wrote: > Do we have XML docs indexing mechanism in the todo's for 8.3? as this > is one of the problem I faced while moving the Oracle like XML > functionality to PostgreSQL using xml2 contrib. Indexing of data types is done in terms of operator classes (or maybe operator families in 8.3, not sure), but so far no one has proposed to define any operators whatsoever on the XML type, so I don't see where any indexing mechanism would come from at the moment. What does Oracle offer? -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
