Justin Clift wrote:

> Tom Lane wrote:
>
>>
>> This question has been touched on before, but I guess it's time to face
>> it fair and square: is it reasonable for an SQL implementation to add
>> implementation-specific columns to an information_schema view?  One
>> could certainly argue that the entire point of information_schema is
>> to be *standard*, not more, not less.  OTOH I do not know if adding
>> an extra column is likely to break anyone's application.  Comments?
>
>
> Well, I suppose it reduces application portability if anyone starts 
> relying on it.


We're advertising to do pure ANSI, so we'd mislead people if we supplied 
non-standard columns.

Regards,
Andreas

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• Re: Adding column comment to information_schema.columns at 2004-07-01 04:35:43 from Justin Clift

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