Re: Metadata for tables, schema, and numeric

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Mike Finn <mike(dot)finn(at)tacticalExecutive(dot)com>
Cc: <pgsql-jdbc(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Metadata for tables, schema, and numeric
Date: 2001-07-04 22:00:59
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.30.0107042358340.679-100000@peter.localdomain
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Mike Finn writes:

> there is still no return value from
>
> getCatalogName(int)
> getSchemaName(int)
> getTableName(int)
>
> Is this something that can be done or is the data just not available from
> postgresql? (ie can I expect to see it in a future release?)

These functions are fundamentally flawed, because it's impossible to
determine the table name that a result column came from, except in the
most simple cases in which case you don't need these functions.

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter

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