Anton <antonin.hou...@gmail.com> wrote: > it was actually the focal point of my considerations: whether to > store plain text or 'something else'. Given that there were similar issues for other hierarchical data types, perhaps we need something similar to tsvector, but for hierarchical data. The extra layer of abstraction might not cost much when used for XML compared to the possible benefit with other data. It seems likely to be a very nice fit with GiST indexes. So under this idea, you would always have the text (or maybe byte array?) version of the XML, and you could "shard" it to a separate column for fast searches. -Kevin
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