Am Freitag, den 09.09.2005, 12:56 -0400 schrieb Ryan Griggs: > I desire to develop an XML-based web application which interfaces with > a backend PostgreSQL database. > > Is there any way to instruct the SELECT statements to return results > as XML rather than a dataset? Microsoft SQL Server uses the “for xml > auto” option to return XML results. > > > > Thank you for information on this issue! You can write a function to turn your row output into XML. Btw. whats the point? You would have to connect natively anyway - now you additionally have the significant overhead in both wire data and parsing... ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq