On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 02:17:28PM +0100, Essam Mansour <essam.mansour@xxxxxxxxx> wrote a message of 35 lines which said: > In my research project, I need a DBMS that supports XML storage and > retrieval, and provides ECA rule support. (No idea about ECA.) > - whether Postgresql DB could be used as XML Repository or not? Certainly, you can put XML in a TEXT field. Of course, without XML-oriented retrieving tools, it is not very useful. At, least, with xml2 (see beyond), you can insert XML and check if it is well-formed. > - Whether Postgresql DB support the XQuery or SQL/XML or not? Why not Xpath? It is supported in PostgreSQL (see http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/contrib/xml2/README.xml2) but I do not know about the performance (I don't know if there is XML-oriented indexation).
