Andrew McIntyre wrote:
I also find it a bit strange that "SHOW VIEWS" uses the heading
"TABLE_NAME" and not "VIEW_NAME".
These are the names of the columns returned from the ResultSet
retrieved from DatabaseMetadata.getTables(), and I believe those
column names are mandated by the JDBC spec. And, ij displays them
faithfully. :-)
We could override the column names in a similar way that we set the
column widths but I don't think that is really worthwhile. Probably
better to just document that little idiosyncrasy.
I have seen many database that show tables and views together in the
'show tables' / 'list tables' command. So maybe
we can do something similar and make the ij o/p to show something like:
create table atab (i int, j int, k int);
create view v_atab as select i,j from atab;
TABLE_SCHEM |TABLE_NAME |TYPE (?)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
APP |ATAB |Table
APP |V_ATAB |View
My 0.02
-Rajesh
