On 14/02/2016 23:25, Bert Verhees wrote:
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
storing a text serialisation of an object structure in a database never
makes sense when you think about it. Storing a /binary/ serialisation is
a normal 'blob' approach, and if you are not doing blobs or partial
blobs, then you are doing transparent representation, in which case
things like XML or JSON don't come into it - they only make sense as one
kind of generated view on data.
You might implement blobs using a zipped text format, but in a serious
scalable implementation that would surely have to be the least efficient
of viable approaches.
I can't think of any circumstance where a DB would actually store its
information as XML instance text (other than where some column value
happened to be an XMLstring, i.e. the XML is just data).
- thomas
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