On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 15:47, Tom Lane wrote: > Hannu Krosing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Will information_schema be strictly SQL99 or will it also have > > PostgreSQL specific views/fields ? > > If it's not strictly conformant to the spec, I see no value in it at > all.
I mean that it could have at least extra *views* for postgresql specific things. It could also have extra *fields* on standard views, but that might break some apps. I see no way how having extra views can break apps. > > We already have plenty of ability to query the catalogs via > non-standard queries. But would it not be nice to have some standard ones, so that each and every DB management app does not need to invent its own ? I agree that this could be done as a project at gborg rather than in information_schema, but it would still be good to have one standard place for examples at least. And the only way to keep the examples up-to-date is by using them in live projects. -- Hannu Krosing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
