On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Andrew Dunstan<and...@dunslane.net> wrote: > Robert Haas wrote: >> >> 3. We have existing precedent for this design pattern in, e.g. >> table_to_xml >> >> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/interactive/functions-xml.html > > Tables are flat, explain output is not. > > If there is a relationship between the items then that needs to be expressed > in the XML structure, either by use of child nodes or attributes. Relying on > the sequence of nodes, if that's what you're doing, is not a good idea, and
I'm not doing that. Period, full stop. The discussion was only about attributes vs. child nodes. > Anyway, I think what this discussion points out is that we actually need a > formal XML Schema for this output. Well, I don't know how to write one, and am not terribly interested in learning. Perhaps someone else would be interested? ...Robert -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
