On 3/12/18 08:18, Thomas Kellerer wrote:
> I am not sure if this qualifies as a bug:
>
> query_to_xml() returns an empty XML document when the query returns no rows,
> e.g:
>
> select query_to_xml('select 42 where false', false, true, '');
>
> The problem with this is, that if the resulting XML is then fed into e.g. the
> xpath() function, that function fails because the "empty" document is an
> invalid XML:
That's because you have the tableforest argument set to true. If you
want a proper XML document, then you should write
select query_to_xml('select 42 where false', false, false, '');
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