src/hg/lib/metaTbl.sql 1.1
1.1 2010/03/18 01:48:25 tdreszer
Finally making progress on a metadata table.
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+# metaTbl.sql was originally generated by the autoSql program, which also
+# generated metaTbl.c and metaTbl.h. This creates the database representation of
+# an object which can be loaded and saved from RAM in a fairly
+# automatic way.
+
+#This contains metadata for a table, file or other predeclared object type.
+CREATE TABLE metaTbl (
+ objName varchar(255) not null, # Object name or ID.
+ objType enum (
+ 'table', # Most objects are tables
+ 'file' # some objects are files
+ ) not null default 'table',
+ var varchar(255) not null, # Metadata variable name.
+ varType enum (
+ 'txt', # Most vars are txt
+ 'binary' # some vars are binary
+ ) not null default 'txt',
+ val longblob not null, # Metadata value.
+ #Indices
+ PRIMARY KEY(objName,var),
+ UNIQUE(var,val(32),objName)
+);