Andrea Aime ha scritto:
> This is similar to Jody's point. However, we don't have anything like
> that for createSchema and updateSchema either.
> Such a capabilities API should probably also provide some hints on how
> type and attribute names are transformed by createSchema to make it
> possible to create a data transfer tool (which today is hard to 
> implement as Oracle and SDE tend to mangle the provided names).

Other things that would be interesting to have in a capabilities API:
- list of actual types supported by the store (does it do Timestamps?
   Time? Or just Date? What about byte[]?)
- can it get any hint to better specify the underlying storage type?
   Something like JDBC_NATIVE_TYPE in the attribute descriptor to
   actually specify that you want a CHAR(20) and not a VARCHAR(20)
   or that you want a timestamp with time zone?

Cheers
Andrea

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