[ic] Database Table Definitions

Mike Heins interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com
Thu Oct 18 16:58:00 2001


Quoting Chad Wittrock (Chad.Wittrock@uni.edu):
> 
> >these for each table. I have come across some for certain tables,
> >for example products
> >(/var/lib/interchange/mycatalog/dbconf/oracle/products.ora). But

> I have not found a file like this for every table, for example
> 2ndDayAir. Do I need to look somewhere else or is this all the
> definitions? I am attempting to recreate the tables that were made
> with the default db in oracle so that I can use oracle as my
> backend db.
> 

Actually, this is one of the things about Interchange people
don't understand:

    There is no ironclad definition. It is flexible.

I know it pains people that they aren't told exactly what to do in every
situation. But Interchange is flexible, not totally structured. There is
no *one and true* database definition.

We don't require that a certain field be a certain type except what you
see there.

I am afraid you will have to live with that.

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