On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 11:58:14AM -0500, Thomas A. Lowery wrote: > On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 07:38:52PM -0600, Dave Rolsky wrote: > > On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, Thomas A. Lowery wrote: > > > > > On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 10:47:09AM -0700, Jason E. Stewart wrote: > > > > "Dave Rolsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > > > I found a bug in the ->tables method. It includes all the system tables. > > > > > A patch is at the bottom of the message. > > > > > > I modified the tables and table_info methods to include the system tables. > > > > Why? It's really pretty irritating since they _always_ will be included. > > And you didn't modify the docs to match, since they still say that they're > > _not_ included. > > My mistake on the docs, I'll correct them. I find it irritating that the > systems tables are NOT included. Is there a good reason to exclude them?
My personal preference is to leave them out. If DBD::Oracle included them, for example, the output would be hundreds of lines longer. (But then the issue of public synonyms greatly clouds the issue as well.) > The advance meta data methods provide a means to write portable code across > the different drivers, let's not leave DBD::Pg out. So support the full set of params to the tables method. Tim.
