[DB-SIG] Re: Proposal: Standardized way to get database schema

[Daniel Dittmar]

>>Another aspect to consider is that databases tend to
>>provide much more information than exposed in your
>>proposal.

Having objects instead of cursor rows would make it
easier to implement database dependent properties (comment,
view definition, table sizes, row count, ...)

There are also useful methods

> There have not been much discussion on this subject past weeks.  I'm sad to
> see nearly nobody seems interested.

Perhaps because those that need it have already implemented their own
API (http://dbdoc.sourceforge.net/, http://www.gnuenterprise.org/)

Daniel Dittmar

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