Re: XPath and XML support

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of John Gray
> Sent: 29 August 2006 22:49
> To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
> 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.