Subject: Re: xPath in a database with LATIN1 encoding
To: Jorge Silva <jorge.silva93@gmail.com>,
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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
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Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2021 15:44:11 +0200
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On 24.04.21 17:20, Jorge Silva wrote:
> We have a database, which is encoded with LATIN1, and we are adding some 
> tables in it to store xml files with the “xml” type. After creating the 
> table and populating it, we use the xPath function to retrieve some data 
> from the XML, but it seems to not work properly, because it returns:

As documented at 
<https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/datatype-xml.html#id-1.5.7.21.7>, 
xpath only works if the server encoding is UTF8.