On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 09:56:33AM -0400, Baron Schwartz wrote: > >> Please, please, no! I_S != storage engine > > > > The actual interface supplied to an I_S would not be the SE interface. It > > would be built on to the same execution path though (unlike the current > > solution which has its own execution path). > > Why not *actually make it a set of views* instead of "pretending" it's > a set of views.
SQL Server does I_S as views too. It has real system tables that change version to version, while the views are standard. We could do this too if we managed to get various engines data dicts into tables -- Stewart Smith _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
