On 7/27/07, svilen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 27 July 2007 02:45:12 jason kirtland wrote:
> - Catalog: > what is a sqlalchemy's metadata? > >jason> "a catalog of tables available in the database." > to me it holds everything about the "subset of database structure", > used in the app. > > as i have seen, sql-wise the term is metadata. going away from sql? To > me it is important. sure, it is not The Metadata of the server. > Why not just Table_collection? And, is it _just_ table collection, or > there's more to it? Catalog... of what? make it TableCatalog then, or > just TableSet? elements are uniq and not ordered... > what about DBSchema/Schema/TableSchema - it does match one schema, or > no? can u have one metadata over tables from 2+ schemas? As I was reminded on IRC, metadata can hold more than Tables: <Gedd> IF you go to the trouble to change that, I'd say simply "TableCollection" <zzzeek_> yah except indexes and sequences can be in it too <stepz> and possibly functions <Gedd> ok, bad idea then <zzzeek_> MetaData is based off of fowler's usage of the word <stepz> and domains <stepz> and lots of other things <zzzeek_> yeah it coujld have functions and domains someday too <zzzeek_> it doesnt really right now.... -- Gaëtan de Menten http://openhex.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sqlalchemy" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
