D.23RDB$RELATIONS

RDB$RELATIONS stores the top-level definitions and attributes of all tables and views in the system.

Column NameData TypeDescription

RDB$VIEW_BLR

BLOB BLR

Stores the query specification for a view, in the binary language representation (BLR). The field stores NULL for a table

RDB$VIEW_SOURCE

BLOB TEXT

Contains the original source text of the query for a view, in SQL language. User comments are included. The field stores NULL for a table

RDB$DESCRIPTION

BLOB TEXT

Could store comments related to the table or view

RDB$RELATION_ID

SMALLINT

Internal identifier of the table or view

RDB$SYSTEM_FLAG

SMALLINT

indicates whether the table or view is user-defined (value 0) or system-defined (value 1 or greater)

RDB$DBKEY_LENGTH

SMALLINT

The total length of the database key. For a table: 8 bytes. For a view, the length is 8 multiplied by the number of tables referenced by the view

RDB$FORMAT

SMALLINT

Internal use, points to the relation’s record in RDB$FORMATS — do not modify

RDB$FIELD_ID

SMALLINT

The field ID for the next column to be added. The number is not decremented when a column is dropped.

RDB$RELATION_NAME

CHAR(31)

Table or view name

RDB$SECURITY_CLASS

CHAR(31)

May reference a security class defined in the table RDB$SECURITY_CLASSES, in order to apply access control limits to all users of this table or view

RDB$EXTERNAL_FILE

VARCHAR(255)

The full path to the external data file if the table is defined with the EXTERNAL FILE clause

RDB$RUNTIME

BLOB

Table metadata description, used internally for optimization

RDB$EXTERNAL_DESCRIPTION

BLOB

Could store comments related to the external file of an external table

RDB$OWNER_NAME

CHAR(31)

The user name of the user who created the table or view originally

RDB$DEFAULT_CLASS

CHAR(31)

Default security class, used when a new column is added to the table

RDB$FLAGS

SMALLINT

Internal flags

RDB$RELATION_TYPE

SMALLINT

The type of the relation object being described:

0 - system or user-defined table 1 - view 2 - external table 3 - monitoring table 4 - connection-level GTT (PRESERVE ROWS) 5 - transaction-level GTT (DELETE ROWS)