Re: Initial review of xslt with no limits patch

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Mike Fowler <mike(at)mlfowler(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Initial review of xslt with no limits patch
Date: 2010-08-09 14:14:03
Message-ID: 28908.1281363243@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Mike Fowler <mike(at)mlfowler(dot)com> writes:
> Turns out the bug was filed in 2005 (see
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=307061). They are currently
> taking a fairly loose interpretation of the XSLT spec. However that was
> only one aspect of the concern. The other was that no errors were being
> reported back in psql when the libxslt is generating errors. Is this
> desirable?

Uh, no; if we're failing to detect an error that the library does
report, that's our bug (and another indication of the immaturity
of this code :-()).

regards, tom lane

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