Re: metadata development

From: Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Dara Olson <dolson(at)glifwc(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: metadata development
Date: 2009-03-28 04:22:07
Message-ID: dcc563d10903272122q6ea7994elb72d3ba9d0af77ef@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 9:44 AM, Dara Olson <dolson(at)glifwc(dot)org> wrote:
> Happy spring.
>
> I am new to postgres/postgis and am trying to figure out the best way to
> approach documenting metadata within postgres.  Has there been anything
> developed to add FGDC or Dublin Core standard metadata records into postgres
> for each table within the database?  Is there any program that can access
> postgres to insert metadata based on a standard or any other way to document
> metadata for a postgres database?  Any help, suggestions or advice from
> prior experiences would be greatly appreciated.

It's already defined within the database, both in the pg_xxx series of
tables and with the information_schema. Not sure what you need
besides that , as I'm not familiar with FGDC or Dublin Core standards.

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