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| author | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> | 2007-05-24 11:13:08 +0000 |
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| committer | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> | 2007-05-24 11:13:08 +0000 |
| commit | 4e3cb9ca48bad5044624de060983cc593603394d (patch) | |
| tree | c0c409283ff77d3466d7f04a0be11082d8cecc57 | |
| parent | 11086f2f2bfec3a5fd37daf3c2e44b51abaf9b69 (diff) | |
| download | postgresql-4e3cb9ca48bad5044624de060983cc593603394d.tar.gz | |
Add deprecation notice about planned removal in 8.4 and advice to try using
the newer XML stuff in core.
(This should probably also be referred to in the release notes.)
| -rw-r--r-- | contrib/xml2/README.xml2 | 13 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/contrib/xml2/README.xml2 b/contrib/xml2/README.xml2 index c2e7170386..28d3db0e00 100644 --- a/contrib/xml2/README.xml2 +++ b/contrib/xml2/README.xml2 @@ -1,6 +1,19 @@ XML-handling functions for PostgreSQL ===================================== + DEPRECATION NOTICE: From PostgreSQL 8.3 on, there is XML-related + functionality based on the SQL/XML standard in the core server. + That functionality covers XML syntax checking and XPath queries, + which is what this module does as well, and more, but the API is + not at all compatible. It is planned that this module will be + removed in PostgreSQL 8.4 in favor of the newer standard API, so + you are encouraged to try converting your applications. If you + find that some of the functionality of this module is not + available in an adequate form with the newer API, please explain + your issue to pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org so that the deficiency + can be addressed. + -- Peter Eisentraut, 2007-05-24 + Development of this module was sponsored by Torchbox Ltd. (www.torchbox.com) It has the same BSD licence as PostgreSQL. |