From 4e3cb9ca48bad5044624de060983cc593603394d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Eisentraut Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 11:13:08 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] 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.) --- contrib/xml2/README.xml2 | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) 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.