Tables providing Documentation

These tables hold metadata supporting this on-line documentation system. Note that we use Postgres's own metadata facilities as far as possible and, in particular, information about the individual columns in each tables is held in the system catalog 'pg_description'.


Tables within section:

TableTypeContents
gbh_ack Documentation Acknowledges the role of outside contributors within specific tables.
gbh_authors Documentation Defines authors of tables and documentation within the database
gbh_chroninfo Codebook Defines those field names within the database that identify dates
gbh_contrib Documentation Lists outside contributors to the database, both people and organisations.
gbh_notes Documentation Holds one or more notes on the individual tables
gbh_parts Documentation [No details available]
gbh_sections Documentation Defines sections into which database tables are grouped for documentation
gbh_tables Documentation Provides a standard set of information on each documented table within GBH