On 05 Oct 2004 12:02:44 +0200, Harald Fuchs wrote: > "Martijn Tonies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> I was asking if the view-source can be stored, so that it can be retrieved >> the way I created it. Do you agree or disagree? > > I disagree. A proper information_schema implementation is much more > than a stored SQL string - it's a standardized way to access meta > information about your DB objects. Thus it must parse the SQL DDL > strings and store its "meaning". Additionally storing the SQL string > _as entered_ would be redundancy.
No, it is not redundant. If I look at the information in the VIEW_COLUMN_USAGE, VIEW_ROUTINE_USAGE, VIEW_TABLE_USAGE and VIEWS views in the INFORMATION_SCHEMA (or their equivalent base tables in the DEFINITION_SCHEMA), they do not contain sufficient information to reconstruct anything but trivial views. > SHOW CREATE VIEW could be implemented by reconstructing some standard > representation of SQL DDL, but this would not always be exactly what > you entered. I agree. One could imagine that views are stored in whatever format comes out of the parser so they are easily integrated into the execution plan at runtime. Obviously when you convert them back to a human readable query expression that query expression will be formatted differently. That seems perfectly reasonable to me. But since the INFORMATION_SCHEMA simply does not have the information required to reconstruct a view, you need something else too. And just as it would be perfectly reasonable to use the query tree, it would also be perfectly reasonable to take the original query expression for that. Both have advantages and disadvantages. Jochem -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
