Theoretical XML & ltree Question

Started by Christopher Kings-Lynneover 23 years ago2 messages
#1Christopher Kings-Lynne
chriskl@familyhealth.com.au

Hi,

ltree is good and fast at indexing hierarchies, right? XML is a standard
way of storing hierarchies, right? Would there be any way of allowing ltree
to index XML text fields to allow really fast XPath searches?

Chris

#2Oleg Bartunov
oleg@sai.msu.su
In reply to: Christopher Kings-Lynne (#1)
Re: Theoretical XML & ltree Question

On Thu, 22 Aug 2002, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:

Hi,

ltree is good and fast at indexing hierarchies, right? XML is a standard
way of storing hierarchies, right? Would there be any way of allowing ltree
to index XML text fields to allow really fast XPath searches?

I was waiting this question :) I was aware of xml, it's in our TODO.

Chris

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