Peter Childs <blue.dragon@blueyonder.co.uk> writes:
> SQL is almost the worst standard I've come across.
It's certainly got its bad points, but if it's so bad how did it get to
be the de facto standard? There were plenty of alternatives awhile back.
> No Meta Standard (How do you find out the structure of your table using
> pure SQL?
See INFORMATION_SCHEMA.
regards, tom lane
