On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 07:54:47PM -0400, Thomas A. Lowery wrote:
> Dave,
>         I just submitted a patch that includes column_info support for
>         Pg. It's not a 100% completed, but is a good start.
> 
>         The next (soon to be released) version of DBD::ADO includes
>         support.
> 
>         Also, I believe DBD::ODBC supports the metadata already.
> 
>         I'm looking forward to DBD::Oracle ... maybe a  beta Tim?

I've patches from Steffen Goeldner that add lots of meta data support
to DBD::Oracle.  I've more work to do on the DBI before I get to
them though.

>         I modified DBI::Shell::Completion to use the metadata for
>         populating completion lists.

Thomas, FYI, DBI::Format was patched in DBI 1.24 so you'll probably
want to merge those changes back into your work (you are looking
after DBI::Format as well as DBI::Shell aren't you? I can't quite
remember.)

Tim.

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