> -----Original Message----- > From: pgsql-general-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:pgsql-general-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Gray > Sent: 29 August 2006 22:49 > To: pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: [GENERAL] XPath and XML support > > On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 13:56:12 -0700, Frank Cohen wrote: > > > Thanks Nikolay: Seeing as xml2 hasn't been ported to Windows yet > > makes me wonder if this is going to be the best way to use XML in > > PostgreSQL in the long-term? Is there anything else on the > boards? - > > Frank > > > > There's a lot of scope to do better than the current support, > certainly. > > However, the "not ported to Windows" is slightly misleading - the code > (like a lot of contrib code) compiles fine under Windows. > Because of the > dependency on libxml2, it might not often be distributed as a > binary, but > people are definitely using on Win32 (I'm not really a Win32 > user but I > have tried it and it did work). It was only ported relatively recently (I know, I did it). It will ship with the Windows PostgreSQL 8.2 binary installer. Regards, Dave.
