Hi,
in my special case I'd like to check if a XML[] is empty, because postgres doesn't implement any equality operators, this is not a 'simple' task. My current solution is: SELECT * FROM sometable WHERE XMLSERIALIZE(CONTENT ((XPATH('/a:bar, somexmlcolumn, ARRAY[ARRAY['a', 'http://foo]]))[1]) AS text)<>'' But there must be a better way - maybe I missed something important - I also tried queries like the following: SELECT * FROM sometable WHERE (XPATH('/a:bar', somexmlcolumn, ARRAY[ARRAY['a', 'http://foo']]))<>('{}'::XML[]) Any ideas and feedback are welcome. Cheers, Tobias