Re: Question about xmloption and pg_restore

Chapman Flack <chap@anastigmatix.net> writes:
> On 05/18/18 15:50, Robert Haas wrote:
>> Hmm.  I thought that xmloption = 'content' was supposed to be strictly
>> more permissive than xmloption = 'document'.

> In the spirit of not leaving a good question hanging, this turns out to be
> a difference between the 2003 SQL/XML standard (which PG implements) and
> the later versions, which changed the data model so there really is a
> containment relationship between 'content' and 'document'.
> https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PostgreSQL_vs_SQL/XML_Standards#XML_OPTION

See also
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/153478795159.1302.9617586466368699403%40wrigleys.postgresql.org

It's odd that people are just reporting this now when it's been like that
for quite a few years, but anyway we've got a problem.  Sounds like maybe
adopting the later standards' definitions would fix it?  Although I have
no idea how complicated that'd be.

            regards, tom lane