The release with core XML support, specifically an XML data type and SQL/XML functions, is 8.3 (the latest release). Prior to 8.3, there was some add on XML support but it was stored in regular text fields and was not SQL/XML compliant.

I am glad I got to meet you. It was the first time I got to meet many of the people there and that was fun too.

LewisC

You can indeed take the “MySQL has the market” position but then again, so does Microsoft. It isn’t a very noble position to take unless your goal is indeed only market share.

That isn’t the goal of PostgreSQL (although it is one of them). The goal is to deliver a superior database. The world’s most advanced Open Source database in fact.

Lastly, Xaprb I invite you to review the mission on http://www.postgresql.us and the Why on http://www.postgresqlconference.org , you will see that we are in fact trying to attack the education market.

Anyway, welcome to our community. I would be happy to answer any and all questions you have about us.

The entire staff of Dunslane Consulting, LLC (i.e. my wife Melanie and I) drove up to College Park, Md last Thursday. We spend Friday viewing the portrait of Stephen Colbert in the restroom of the National Portrait Gallery and wandering among the beau…