On 12/10/2010 9:46 AM, Rick Hillegas wrote:
I am considering adding metadata wrapper functions to the Derby product. I would like the community's feedback on how to expose these functions.
Thank you Rick for this work. I have not looked closely at it but am wondering if you are proposing that these be exposed as a stable or unstable interface and also wonder if we have a call syscs_util.syscs_load_metadata_wrappers( true ); , if there should also a be an unload or if the load method should reload new definitions. I can't remember if columns might get added for metadata calls with new JDBC versions. It seems to me there is some sort of precedence for this. Even if there is just a bug it would be great to be able to drop and reload.
Again having not looked at this, I don't understand how confident we will never want to change the wrappers, but it might be nice to first just expose them on a Wiki page as unstable and subject to change until they have been vetted instead of putting them in the formal documentation right away. Pardon my fear of compatibility commitments #:)
Thanks Kathey
