On Friday 27 July 2007 11:44:43 Gaetan de Menten wrote:
> 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....

i guess triggers too?
in that case, TableWhatever isn't proper thing. 
Catalog... some Apple][ memories... Directory? DBSchema? DBStructure? 
DBDescription? DBMetaData (;-l)?

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