Information on resource '__system__/dc_tables'
Table-related metadata for the tables within this data center.
Services defined within this resource descriptor
Tables defined within this resource descriptor
- dc.discrete_string_values
Discrete values found in string-valued columns.
This is usually filled by dachs limits. Only columns with a statistics
property of "enumerate" are considered here. Values found here are
- dc.metastore
A table for storing all kinds of key-value pairs. Key starting with an
underscore are for use by user RDs.
Only one pair per key is supported, newer keys overwrite older ones.
Currently, this is only used for schemaversion, the version of the
DaCHS system tables as used by gavo upgrade to figure out what to
change. gavo upgrade manages this.
From your code, you can use base.getDBMeta(key) and
base.setDBMeta(connection, key, value) to put persistent,
string-valued metadata in here; if you use this, would you tell us
your use case?
- dc.simple_col_stats
Simple (one-column) statistics of orderable columns
This is usually filled by dachs limits, which might use estimates
rather than actual statistics for large tables. Also, values elements
on the column definitions themselves override what may be given here.
- dc.tablemeta
A table mapping table names and schemas to the resource descriptors
they come from and whether they are open to ADQL queries.
This is used wherever DaCHS needs to go from a database name to the
resource description, e.g., when generating tableinfo.
The table is maintained through gavo imp; to force things out of here,
there's gavo drop (for RDs; use -f if the RD is gone or meoved away)
or gavo purge (for single tables).
[Manage RD]