Re: Request for qualified column names

What is needed, at least from my perspective, is a way to determine
proper meta data for a given column. Is it updatable? Is it nullable?
Is it part of a primary key or index? Without either the base table
name or attrelid,indrelid of the table, I can't get this info.

Reggie

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 4:01 PM
> To: Peter Eisentraut
> Cc: Tom Lane; Reggie Burnett; 'Dave Cramer'; 'PostgreSQL Hackers
Mailing
> List'
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Request for qualified column names
>
>
> Dave Cramer says it is needed for the jdbc spec, somehow. It seems
kind
> of odd so I don't want to make too complex an implementation.
>
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> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian writes:
> >
> > > My idea on this after chat with Dave was to add a GUC option that
puts
> > > the schema.table.column name as the default column label, rather
than
> > > just the column name.
> >
> > Can someone explain why this is needed at all? There is a reason
why
> the
> > SQL standard does not provide for this information: it's not well
> defined.
> > Are you trying to make up a poor substitute for updatable views?
> >
> > --
> > Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net
> >
> >
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