Thanks Sean for the link, it is very helpful. It seems like the PG equievent to Oracles data dictionary are the pg_systemtables. --- Sean Davis <sdavis2@mail.nih.gov> wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 May 2007 15:21, Richard Broersma Jr wrote: > > Many of the ERD and SQL books that have have read refer to a data > > dictionary. However, I seem to be missing the point of what it acuatally > > is. IIRC, some books refer to it as a kind of document created by a DB > > designer, and other suggest that it is a kind of RBDMS created metadata. > > > > Can anyone please offer a consise description or provide a link to that > > describes what it is? Also, how is this information useful to a DBA? > > Hi, Richard. I haven't seen this "term" used before. But here is a link: > > http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2002/10/28/data_dictionary.html > > Sean >
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