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)? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
