19.3. XML and PostgreSQL
PostgreSQLis an object relational database system. Unlike databases such as Tamino, PostgreSQL is not an XML-based database. This leads to higher efficiency, but when working with XML it also has some minor disadvantages.
In this section you will learn to use PostgreSQL in combination with XML. You will see that it's easy, and the fact that PostgreSQL is an object relational database offers some significant advantages.
19.3.1. Installation
In PostgreSQL's contributed directory, you can find a directory called xml. This directory contains a package for working with XML inside a PostgreSQL database. To install the package, just run make:
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