Re: The fable of DEMETRIUS, CONSTRAINTICUS, and AUTOMATICUS

Jonathan Leffler wrote:

> 1.  There's a boot-strapping problem.  How do you create the initial


>     load of data in the system catalog that describes the system

>     catalog?  You can't create the columns in the 'systables' before

>     there's a 'syscolumns' table, nor can you create the 'syscolumns'

>     table before there's a 'systables'.


Easy - you have a system catalog catalog for your meta-meta data.

Er, hang on a minute...

Paul. Received on Sun Oct 24 2004 - 08:29:57 CDT