thoughts on TAP-1.2

[Mark Taylor]

On Thu, 17 Mar 2022, Markus Demleitner wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 11:11:33AM -0700, Patrick Dowler wrote:
> > I wanted to remind people of some work we did at CADC/CANFAR to enable
> > users to manage tables in a TAP service. The short version of this is that
> > it supports create table, create index, drop table, setting permissions
> > (private, groups via GMS, or public), and loading data (only adding rows).
...

> On the other hand, if I don't give that metadata, these tables won't
> be in TOPCAT's table browser, and syntax highlighting will pour red
> all across queries against such tables.

Indeed, such an extension to TAP is going to require quite a bit
of implementation work in clients like TOPCAT, alongside service
metadata management extensions to support that, if they're going
to deal properly with uploaded tables that may appear or disappear
during a TAP session.

Mark

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Mark Taylor  Astronomical Programmer  Physics, Bristol University, UK
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