Re: [GENERAL] using hstore to store documents

On 01/26/2017 04:37 AM, Rita wrote:
> of course, sorry for being vague.
>
> I have an external process generating a XML file (every 30 secs) which
> is about 10MB. I would like to store the file as XML type for me to

Does this mean you are using this:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/datatype-xml.html

to store the actual XML?

> query using xpath. I plan to query it every few seconds by few hundred
> clients. so, it maybe easier for me create a separate table of my xpath
> results and have clients query that table (xpath can be expensive).

And you want to use hstore to store the search results?

>
> So, I was wondering if hstore will help me for fast access.
>
> Please let me know if anything is unclear.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 3:58 AM, Tomas Vondra
> <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com <mailto:tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 01/26/2017 09:08 AM, Rita wrote:
>
>         Is it possible to use hstore to store xml document?
>
>         I would like to have
>
>         "status" => "<xml>..."::xml
>
>
>     Keys/values in hstore are simply text strings, so you can store
>     anything you want formatted as a string.
>
>     Not sure if that's what you're looking for though, you'll probably
>     need to explain what you're trying to achieve to get better answers.
>
>     regards
>
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