Thanks Tom and Christoph,

Got it!

The function xml_valid is also gone.  Does xml_is_well_formed accomplish the same objective?

Thanks,

George

On 01/10/2024 12:28 p.m., Tom Lane wrote:
George Weaver<gwea...@shaw.ca>  writes:
I am testing upgrading from Version 13 to Version 17.  I am getting the
following error when trying to restore a database in Version 17 (the
database was backed up from Version 13 using the Version 17 pg_dump):
     pg_Restore: error: could not execute query: ERROR:  could not find
     function "xml_is_well_formed" in file "C:/Program
     Files/PostgreSQL/17/lib/pgxml.dll"
     Command was: CREATE FUNCTION public.xml_is_well_formed(text) RETURNS
     boolean
          LANGUAGE c IMMUTABLE STRICT
          AS '$libdir/pgxml', 'xml_is_well_formed';
What you appear to have here is a pre-9.1 version of the xml2
extension.  That is so old that you're going to have difficulty
modernizing it.  We used to provide scripts for converting those
loose objects into extensions, but we got rid of them in v13,
figuring that after ten years their usefulness had passed.

I think what you will have to do is manually drop all the xml2
functions (look for pg_proc entries with '$libdir/pgxml' in probin)
from the v13 database, then upgrade, then install the xml2 extension
if you still want it.  Fortunately that module only provided functions
not datatypes, so this shouldn't be too painful.  (Another way could
be to manually remove those CREATE FUNCTION commands from the dump
script.)

I'm betting that this database has a lot of other deferred
maintenance that you ought to think about while you're at it.
If there are any other old-style extensions in there, better
fix them up.

                        regards, tom lane

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