To achieve what? To make spying and breaking easier? The developer should know the structure of the database in advance; making such guesswork in production code on the end user's machine is at least inappropriate. Also, if we agreed to that, this would be a workaround for a supposed deficiency of SQL. But the SQL committee does not recognize it as a deficiency; otherwise it would have been fixed by now. Best regards, Chris
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brady Eidson Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2007 3:14 AM To: WHATWG Mailing List Subject: [whatwg] SQL API + access to tables There is no standard way in SQL that I know of to get the list of tables in a database. In SQLite you can enumerate tables out of sqlite_master, but that should not be encouraged. What are people's thoughts about adding this to the API? ~Brady
