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What are the benefits of using the “xml” datatype versus storing the xml content inside a “text” datatype?
Am I able to query by some specific xml attribute or element?
What about indexing and query performance?
Besides the postgresql manual what other online sources can you point me to?
Generally speaking, the benefits are the same ones as for any other data type and why you have data types other than text at all:
You can only store valid (well, well-formed) XML values in columns of type xml.
You can only perform operations on XML values that make sense for XML.
One example is the
xpath()function (XML Path Language), which only operates on values of type xml, not text.Indexing and query performance characteristics are not better or worse than for say the text type at the moment.