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[David Verdin <address@concealed>]

Yes, that's the custom user attribute field. It's a contribution from A. 
de Bignancourt (UREC).
It's actually a new feature in Sympa which is not documented in the user 
manual yet.
Basically, it allows a list owner to define additional attributes for 
his/her list's users. To avoid too big transformations in the Sympa 
database handling, these attributes are stored in an XML fragment stored 
in the field you found.
When defining custom users attributes (through the section 
"miscellaneous" in the list administration panel) you will add new 
fields in the list's subscription form.
The values of these fields are then stored as XML in the database.

Regards,


Øystein Gyland a écrit :
> On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 15:29 +0100, Ståle Kristoffersen wrote:
>   
> > Hi, we tried to upgrade our test-install to the new beta, the upgrade
> > failed so now we are trying to install the new version from scratch.
> >     
>
> Hi, we encountered this after we upgraded: 
>
> sympa=> SELECT custom_attribute_subscriber from subscriber_table ;
>                          
>  <?xml version="1.0"
> encoding="UTF-8" ?><custom_attributes></custom_attributes>
>
> ( line wrap not included in the database. )
>
> All of the users have this attribute. I can't remember that I've seen
> this with the previous version, and the attribute does looks a bit odd
> to me..
>
>   

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David Verdin
Comité réseau des universités