Re: Add Metadata to Postgre SQL

On 08/14/12 4:32 AM, José Pedro Santos wrote:
> With the files should came metadata to describe what is inside the
> file. I can't put in the comment options because is not ISO standart
> that allow to produce metadata.
>
> I'm rookie with Postgre what do you mean by "stored in a text field of
> a table"? comment option?
>
> If exist one option in the table options called "Metadata" would be
> great because allow to insert all the information there.
>

you have a table with your data stored in it, right? something like...

create table myrasters (id serial, rasterdata bytea); ?

well, add another text field, metadata, like...

alter table myrasters add column metadata text;

and store your metadata there.

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