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18 messages in com.googlegroups.sqlalchemy[sqlalchemy] Re: a renaming proposal

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jason kirtland	26 Jul 2007 16:44
svilen	27 Jul 2007 01:26
Gaetan de Menten	27 Jul 2007 01:44
svilen	27 Jul 2007 02:27
Marco Mariani	27 Jul 2007 02:46
avdd	27 Jul 2007 03:29
Jonathon Anderson	27 Jul 2007 07:04
Michael Bayer	27 Jul 2007 08:14
JP	27 Jul 2007 09:26
svilen	27 Jul 2007 09:27
Jonathan Ellis	27 Jul 2007 09:46
jason kirtland	27 Jul 2007 11:03
jason kirtland	27 Jul 2007 11:26
Michael Bayer	27 Jul 2007 12:50
Gaetan de Menten	27 Jul 2007 13:05
sdob...@sistechnology.com	27 Jul 2007 13:09
sdob...@sistechnology.com	27 Jul 2007 14:25
shday	27 Jul 2007 17:10

Subject:	[sqlalchemy] Re: a renaming proposal
From:	svilen (sdob...@sistechnology.com)
Date:	07/27/2007 02:27:38 AM
List:	com.googlegroups.sqlalchemy

On Friday 27 July 2007 11:44:43 Gaetan de Menten wrote:

On 7/27/07, svilen <sdob...@sistechnology.com> 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)?