>>2. Almost all of the information that cannot fit will be useful to
>>other database systems as well, and should be suggested to the ANSI/ISO
>>committee. Since INFORMATION_SCHEMA is a very new idea (only two
>>adopters that I know of so far) I expect it will need to grow and
>>PostgreSQL could be one of the contributors.
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> [ raised eyebrow... ] INFORMATION_SCHEMA is in the SQL92 spec.
> If only two systems have adopted it in the last 13 years, it's
> a failure and the SQL committee is unlikely to want to spend any
> time on it. In any case, they just issued a spec and so there is
> very unlikely to be another update for another five or so years.
INFORMATION_SCHEMA is also in MySQL 5, so that makes 3 :D
Chris