On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Andres Freund<and...@anarazel.de> wrote: > How would you model something like: > <plans> > <plan> ... </plan> > <plan> ... </plan> > ... > </plans> > otherwise? > > There are potentially unlimited number of child nodes - AppendNode for > example can have any number of them. Sure, you can give each <plan> node a > 'offset=' id, but that doesn't buy much. > I don't see how that could be much improved by using child-nodes (or even > worse attributes).
Note that even in this case we DON'T rely on the ordering of the nodes. The inner <plan> nodes have child nodes which contain their relationship to the parent. ...Robert -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
