Re: Obtaining information on the schema of tables which

On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 09:28:15AM +0200, Daniel Ariel wrote:
> > I think what he was complaining about was that information_schema
> > restricts access to many things unless you are the table owner.
> > This is per SQL99, but SQL2003 seems to have relaxed the rules to
> > allow you to see info about tables you can access (ie, have nonzero
> > rights for). Updating the information_schema to follow the SQL2003
> > rules is on the to-do list, but I dunno if anyone is actively working
> > on it. (Peter?)
>
> Tom's interpretation is correct.
>
> Is the required work to update to SQL2003 merely an update of the SQL of
> the views in information_schema ? If it would expedite matters I would
> be willing to help modify the SQL accordingly.

Some of the code in http://pgfoundry.org/projects/newsysviews/ might be
of use to you...
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