Knut Anders Hatlen wrote: > Daniel John Debrunner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>David Van Couvering wrote: >> >>>Good news Lance, thanks, I was getting worried if we were going to have >>>to regularly change column order and break existing applications/IDEs/etc. >> >>Hopefully we don't have any documented Derby specific additional columns >>in the metadata, that would be non-standard. > > > The only non-standard columns we have are METHOD_ID and PARAMETER_ID > in getProcedureColumns and getFunctionParameters. For > getProcedureColumns, they are documented in the reference manual.
Yes they are documented, but not in any useful way. There is no description of what they represent, only the text: "a Derby-specific column". I think METHOD_ID could be removed, it's an artifact of the old way Cloudscape used to support non-standard method aliases. Dan.