Re: [HACKERS] Bug in XPATH() produces invalid XML values and probably un-restorable dumps

2011-06-09 Thread Florian Pflug
On May31, 2011, at 20:50 , Florian Pflug wrote: While trying to figure out sensible semantics for XPATH() and scalar-value returning XPath expressions, I've stumbled upon a bug in XPATH() that allows invalid XML values to be produced. This is a serious problem because should such invalid

[HACKERS] Bug in XPATH() produces invalid XML values and probably un-restorable dumps

2011-05-31 Thread Florian Pflug
Hi While trying to figure out sensible semantics for XPATH() and scalar-value returning XPath expressions, I've stumbled upon a bug in XPATH() that allows invalid XML values to be produced. This is a serious problem because should such invalid values get inserted into an XML column, an