From 03d2a1c688cf00cbfeb513f33094965a3ae41ff0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bruce Momjian Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 22:09:31 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Slight adjustments to xml documentation to reflect functionality just added. --- doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml | 17 ++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml index f68714bd20..34af82629e 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ - + Data Types @@ -3373,7 +3373,7 @@ SELECT * FROM pg_attribute The data type xml can be used to store XML data. Its - advantage over storing XML data in, say, a text field is that it + advantage over storing XML data in a text field is that it checks the input values for well-formedness, and there are support functions to perform type-safe operations on it; see . Currently, there is no support for @@ -3381,15 +3381,14 @@ SELECT * FROM pg_attribute - XML (Extensible Markup Language) support is not one - capability, but a variety of features supported by a database - system. These capabilities include storage, import/export, - validation, indexing, efficiency of modification, searching, + XML (Extensible Markup Language) support is not + just the existance of an xml data type, but a + variety of features supported by a database system. These + capabilities include import/export, indexing, searching, transforming, and XML to SQL mapping. PostgreSQL supports some but not all of these - XML capabilities. Future releases of - PostgreSQL will continue to improve XML - support. For an overview of XML use in databases, see XML capabilities. For an overview of XML + use in databases, see . -- 2.40.0