On Oct 5, 2010, at 3:14 PM, Robert Calco wrote:

> 3. A standard metadata API. Each RDBMS does this differently and it would be
> nice if developers of, e.g., ORM tools and such did not have to "roll their
> own" metadata query and manipulation logic.

Not sure if that really belong to an API though. 

Perhaps such information are better left to the database:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_schema
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_metadata

> I would probably make these
> separate clibs to allow developers to load only what they need.

Again, to me at least, it would be more beneficial to have a proper, consistent 
information_schema view, rather than some LuaSQL specific API. 

> The core
> should remain light/simple.

Cheers to that :)




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