Generic database dictionary access

[Michael Fuhr]

"Edward Diener" <eldiener at earthlink.net> writes:

> Has there been any movement in the 5 year time span since the 2.0 API
> was published to add richer generic functionality for relational
> databases as regards data dictionary access ? I fully realize that each
> major RDBMS has its own methods for programatically querying its data
> dictionary, and I suspect that there is no common SQL specification for
> doing so, but I would think that richer functionality along these lines
> might be welcome to Python database programmers other than myself.

SQL defines INFORMATION_SCHEMA as a standard way to query metadata,
although not all databases implement it.  Google for more info.

Recent versions of PostgreSQL support INFORMATION_SCHEMA -- here's
the doc:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/information-schema.html

-- 
Michael Fuhr
http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/