Justin Clift wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>
>>
>> This question has been touched on before, but I guess it's time to face
>> it fair and square: is it reasonable for an SQL implementation to add
>> implementation-specific columns to an information_schema view? One
>> could certainly argue that the entire point of information_schema is
>> to be *standard*, not more, not less. OTOH I do not know if adding
>> an extra column is likely to break anyone's application. Comments?
>
>
> Well, I suppose it reduces application portability if anyone starts
> relying on it.
We're advertising to do pure ANSI, so we'd mislead people if we supplied
non-standard columns.
Regards,
Andreas