Update information_schema documentation to match system tables.
authorBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:47:34 +0000 (18:47 +0000)
committerBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:47:34 +0000 (18:47 +0000)
Backpatch to 8.2.X.

doc/src/sgml/information_schema.sgml

index ad2cb1508eb49f9c30606fee3daed563eff7d112..53a22beff5ab8e099b191626a4e2120a766cdb14 100644 (file)
 SELECT c.column_name, c.data_type, e.data_type AS element_type
 FROM information_schema.columns c LEFT JOIN information_schema.element_types e
      ON ((c.table_catalog, c.table_schema, c.table_name, 'TABLE', c.dtd_identifier)
-       = (e.object_catalog, e.object_schema, e.object_name, e.object_type, e.array_type_identifier))
+       = (e.object_catalog, e.object_schema, e.object_name, e.object_type, e.dtd_identifier))
 WHERE c.table_schema = '...' AND c.table_name = '...'
 ORDER BY c.ordinal_position;
 </programlisting>
@@ -1936,13 +1936,11 @@ ORDER BY c.ordinal_position;
      </row>
 
      <row>
-      <entry><literal>array_type_identifier</literal></entry>
+      <entry><literal>dtd_identifier</literal></entry>
       <entry><type>sql_identifier</type></entry>
       <entry>
        The identifier of the data type descriptor of the array being
-       described.  Use this to join with the
-       <literal>dtd_identifier</literal> columns of other information
-       schema views.
+       described
       </entry>
      </row>
 
@@ -2097,13 +2095,6 @@ ORDER BY c.ordinal_position;
       <entry>Always null, because arrays always have unlimited maximum cardinality in <productname>PostgreSQL</></entry>
      </row>
 
-     <row>
-      <entry><literal>dtd_identifier</literal></entry>
-      <entry><type>sql_identifier</type></entry>
-      <entry>
-       An identifier of the data type descriptor of the element.  This
-       is currently not useful.
-      </entry>
      </row>
     </tbody>
    </tgroup>