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Returning XML with SELECT statements? IS THIS POSSIBLE?

From
Ryan Griggs
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I desire to develop an XML-based web application which interfaces with a backend PostgreSQL database.

Is there any way to instruct the SELECT statements to return results as XML rather than a dataset?  Microsoft SQL Server uses the “for xml auto” option to return XML results.

 

Thank you for information on this issue!

 

Ryan Griggs

ryan.griggs@gmail.com

 

Re: Returning XML with SELECT statements? IS THIS

From
Tino Wildenhain
Date:
Am Freitag, den 09.09.2005, 12:56 -0400 schrieb Ryan Griggs:
> I desire to develop an XML-based web application which interfaces with
> a backend PostgreSQL database.
>
> Is there any way to instruct the SELECT statements to return results
> as XML rather than a dataset?  Microsoft SQL Server uses the “for xml
> auto” option to return XML results.
>
>
>
> Thank you for information on this issue!

You can write a function to turn your row output into XML.

Btw. whats the point? You would have to connect natively
anyway - now you additionally have the significant
overhead in both wire data and parsing...