There are one thing that I missed from current MySQL which is XML function. It’s kind of tricky to perform XML functions in there. A common trick is to store xml tags within a string/text field. Then you may do any XML stuff manually in your script.
PostgreSQL 8.3 has this XML integrated.. finally! There are set of XML functions already there. It means you can have for
example searching inside the tag directly. It speeds up anything as the process will be performed in the database.
I wish that MySQL can have this unique feature embedded in the next version.
