On 2005-05-05, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
> This makes sense; I do wish that someone had mentioned it when I originally
> raised the subject of new system views. It would have saved us some work.
I'd have raised it myself if I thought there was any mileage in it. As
you can probably guess, I don't.
information_schema is fine at what it is _intended_ for - as a
standardized way of accessing a standard subset of the available metadata.
In that sense it is still necessary - however it is not sufficient, and
I don't believe that either the raw catalogs nor any reasonable extension
of information_schema actually fills that gap.
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