Although you could consider this a bug, its more like a feature request:

It would be very nice to have a data dictionary.

(You know, a document that explains every row in every database table and how they are all connected, all relations, all dependencies.)

Thanks,
Eric

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magico’s picture

magico commented
Version: 4.7.1 » x.y.z
Component: database system » other

A page in the handbook must be written.

bdragon’s picture

bdragon commented
Version: x.y.z » 6.x-dev
Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)

Drupal 6 has a schema API, and work is ongoing for having a description for every column. Once this is done, we could programatically generate a data dictionary!

seanburlington’s picture

seanburlington commented

there is this

http://cvs.drupal.org/viewvc.py/drupal/contributions/docs/developer/data...

But it's two years old and references Drupal 4.7

http://cvs.drupal.org/viewvc.py/drupal/contributions/docs/developer/data...
http://cvs.drupal.org/viewvc.py/drupal/contributions/docs/developer/data...