> On 06/04/2013 10:46 PM, Michael Bayer wrote: >> There's a long standing ticket to add support for comments, at least at the >> DDL level. I don't think anyone has looked into what level of support we >> get from the various backends as far as reflection. >> >> So its something the library has room for, but it's an open item for now. >> The four-year-old ticket is http://www.sqlalchemy.org/trac/ticket/1546. >> >> >> >> >> On Jun 4, 2013, at 8:33 PM, Warwick Prince <warwi...@mushroomsys.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi Michael >>> >>> I'm toying with the idea of embedding some metadata into the comments on >>> columns and/or the table comment. Is there a way to reliably read the >>> comment from the column definition via reflection across all dialects that >>> would support a comment at a column level? Also, can I read the comment >>> normally attached to the table definition? >>> >>> Thanks >>> Warwick > > > If this metadata will be used just in sqlalchemy (or python libraries up in > the stack), you could use the info parameter when creating columns.
OK - sounds promising. What actually is the 'info' that it reads/writes? i.e. where is it getting it from/putting it in the DB? (Or does it only reside in the Python code?) Also, I'd like to +1 the task to reflect the comments with support for as many dialects as possible :-) We have developed a large platform using SQLA as the ORM, and as part of the maintenance area we have a generic database manager that is intended to allow maintenance, viewing, manual row insertion/deletion etc (Like MySQL Workbench et al) that is 100% database agnostic. Comments are missing at the moment which is a shame. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sqlalchemy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sqlalchemy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sqlalchemy@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sqlalchemy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sqlalchemy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sqlalchemy@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
