Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Peter Eisentraut wrote: >> I was hoping that we're deprecating contrib/xml2, so I wouldn't add more >> features to it.
> Author states: >> I understand that XML support is planned and at least partially >> implemented for 8.3, but many production instances will be unable (or, >> in fact, unwilling) to upgrade to 8.3 for quite some time. Because >> this patch is completely backward compatible it can (theoretically) be >> included in future 8.1 and 8.2 releases, and for those of us that need >> more full XML support in the short term the upgrade of a contrib >> module is probably a very viable option -- it is for me, anyway. Well, it's not going to be put in future 8.1 or 8.2 releases, so the above argument is not a reason to include it now. What the author should do if he wants to offer a new feature for past release branches is to put up a project on pgfoundry. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend