How to insert xml data in PostgreSQL?

@elise_daugherty 

To insert XML data into a PostgreSQL database, you can use the INSERT statement with the xml data type.

Here is an example of how you can do this:

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INSERT INTO table_name (column_name)
VALUES (XMLPARSE (DOCUMENT '<root><element>value</element></root>'));

In this example, table_name is the name of the table where you want to insert the data, and column_name is the name of the column in which you want to store the XML data. The XMLPARSE function is used to parse the XML data as a document and insert it into the database.

You can also use the xml data type to store XML data in a column of a table, like this:

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CREATE TABLE table_name (
    id serial PRIMARY KEY,
    xml_data xml
);

Then, you can insert XML data into the xml_data column using the INSERT statement:

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INSERT INTO table_name (xml_data)
VALUES (XMLPARSE (DOCUMENT '<root><element>value</element></root>'));

You can also use the COPY command to import XML data from a file into a table. For example:

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COPY table_name (xml_data) FROM '/path/to/file.xml' WITH (FORMAT XML);

This will import the XML data from the file.xml file into the xml_data column of the table_name table.