2008/12/16 Murray Cumming <[email protected]>

> On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 16:52 +0100, Vivien Malerba wrote:
>
> >         I don't have a sense yet of all the things the meta store can
> >         do, but I
> >         would at least like some convenience functions to get the
> >         common obvious
> >         things such as
> >         - the list of tables
> >         - the list of fields for a specific table
> >
> > Getting information out of the meta store can already be done using:
> > * gda_meta_store_extract () for very specific needs (one needs to know
> > the internal database structure and use SQL)
> > * gda_connection_get_meta_store_data() which is more formal
> > * a GdaMetaStruct object which is very easy to use and works very well
> > for tables and views
> >
> > Where the API is still rough is regarding updating the meta store's
> > data with the database structure (or populating it the first time),
> > where one at the moment can only use
> > gda_connection_update_meta_store().
>
> Yes, that's what I mean. I'd like it to be easier to update the meta
> store with just that information. And I'm saying that some convenience
> functions might take care of the common stuff.
>

Ok, I'll try to propose something. Do you want it for V4?
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