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On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 10:36 PM John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 10:15 PM Roger Harman <roger.harman@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I haven't looked at one of these in years but, as I recall, it should be easy to make one by querying SYSCOLUMNS and concatenating the necessary format pieces.

No, it would not be easier that way. There are at least two reasons for this:

Sorry, I read too quickly: you didn't say "easier", so my apologies for that.

But the reasons I gave for not querying the database remain.

John Y.

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