Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: > On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Tom Lane<t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> I believe we have things set up so that you can still print "xml" data >> without libxml configured in. We'd need to be sure casting to text >> works too, but other than that I don't see an issue here.
> Hmm, I just tried to do this by modifying ExplainResultDesc to use > XMLOID rather than TEXTOID when stmt->format == EXPLAIN_FORMAT_XML, > and sure enough, explain (format xml) ... fails when --with-libxml is > not specified. That's because the code goes through BuildTupleFromCStrings, which invokes xml_in in this scenario, and xml_in (as opposed to xml_out) does depend on libxml. However, using BuildTupleFromCStrings is wasteful/stupid for *both* text and xml output, so it seems like getting rid of it is the thing to do here. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers