Hi Joe, thanks for the patch.

I have a couple of comments

• I recall that all_tab_cols didn't always work, which is why I switched to fgetmetadata. Have you seen this work for all tables?
• doesn't that set owner to yourself when doing a describe on a global table, such as coadd_objects? I think when there is no dot in the table name, the owner clause should not be present at all

Hi Erin,

Definitely good point on the second one - I didn’t actually know there were global tables! For example I can list the contents of coadd_objects but can’t see it on any kind of list of tables I can generate. Any ideas?

I think this may be related to your first point, too - there may be tables I don’t know exist to test it on. I’ll change it to leave it without a username by default, definitely.

Joe

On 30 Oct 2014, at 14:04, Erin Sheldon [email protected] wrote:

Hi Joe, thanks for the patch.

I have a couple of comments

I recall that all_tab_cols didn't always work, which is why I switched to fgetmetadata. Have you seen this work for all tables?
doesn't that set owner to yourself when doing a describe on a global table, such as coadd_objects? I think when there is no dot in the table name, the owner clause should not be present at all
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by global table I just mean it is visible in the global namespace. You are right that it does have an owner, but has just been made more visible.

Okay. So who owns the table (or whatever it is) called COADD_OBJECTS? I can’t see it listed anywhere.

Joe

On 30 Oct 2014, at 14:22, Erin Sheldon [email protected] wrote:

by global table I just mean it is visible in the global namespace. You are right that it does have an owner, but has just been made more visible.

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I have no idea!

I've concluded I don't really understand Oracle on any level. Better leave this PR alone for now.

I agree about oracle. I find it very opaque and the documentation hard to find, follow.

It might be a good idea to just ask Todd how he would do it.

Yeah. I've decided to avoid asking the DM people too many questions until after the Y1 release, though. This can wait until then!.