On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 7:30 PM, Ian Dees <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Matt Amos <[email protected]> wrote: >> sorry, i wasn't clear in my question: why triggers in particular, >> rather than one of the many other features that the DB provides for >> doing this? > > Mostly because it would allow us to use the same XML format that everybody > already knows how to parse and because it's what I've worked with in my > limited PostgreSQL experience.
why would it allow us to use the XML format? nothing in XML ever goes near the database. > What other features were you thinking about? i was looking at snapshots and transaction IDs to isolate the updated rows in the history tables. cheers, matt _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
