From: Jos Backus <jos@...>
Date: 2008-10-12T10:43:35+09:00
Subject: Re: ANN: Sequel 2.6.0 Released

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 10:27:35AM +0900, Jeremy Evans wrote:
> * Schema parsing was refactored, resulting in a huge speedup when
>   using MySQL.  MySQL now uses the DESCRIBE statement instead of the
>   INFORMATION_SCHEMA.  PostgreSQL now uses the pg_* system catalogs
>   instead of the INFORMATION schema.

I'm curious: given the huge speed improvement using their native metadata
tables, does this mean that INFORMATION_SCHEMA support (which is the standard
way to access this type of information across database engines) is poorly
implemented in MySQL/PostgreSQL?  Or is INFORMATION_SCHEMA itself poorly
designed?

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Jos Backus
jos at catnook.com