Re: What is this thing that is called a "Data Dictionary?"

Thanks Sean for the link, it is very helpful. It seems like the PG equievent to Oracles data
dictionary are the pg_systemtables.
--- Sean Davis <sdavis2(at)mail(dot)nih(dot)gov> wrote:

> On Wednesday 02 May 2007 15:21, Richard Broersma Jr wrote:
> > Many of the ERD and SQL books that have have read refer to a data
> > dictionary. However, I seem to be missing the point of what it acuatally
> > is. IIRC, some books refer to it as a kind of document created by a DB
> > designer, and other suggest that it is a kind of RBDMS created metadata.
> >
> > Can anyone please offer a consise description or provide a link to that
> > describes what it is? Also, how is this information useful to a DBA?
>
> Hi, Richard. I haven't seen this "term" used before. But here is a link:
>
> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2002/10/28/data_dictionary.html
>
> Sean
>