Robert, Others have covered some of your topics. On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 20:51:44 -0800, rlee0001 wrote: > 7. > An XML field type and associated XPath/DOM functions. Other exotic > field types like Image might be nice for some people as well. But XML > would be awesome. > The contrib module xml2 (in the core source distribution and also built in some bianry versions) provides some support functions for XPath, where you store the documents in columns of type text. There is also a project, XpSQL that does decomposition of XML documents - see http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/xpsql/projdisplay.php > Just some stupid ideas. It's always valuable to see what people are interested in - but there are sometimes reasons why it's not seen as practical or appropriate (standards compliance, namespace pollution etc.) to include a requested feature. Regards John