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SYSTEM.SECTION

Description

A row of SYSTEM.SECTION describes part or all the tree form (the form input to the optimizer) of either a search condition that defines a check constraint or a SELECT statement that defines a view. If more than one row is needed to return the entire section, the order of the section portions is represented in column SEQUENCE.

View SYSCA.SECTION is defined on SYSTEM.SECTION.

Note: For more information, see SYSCA Objects.

Column name

Column description

Data type

Null specifi- cation

SCHEMA

Schema-name qualifier of the table or view.

CHAR(18)

NOT NULL

TABLE

Table or view name.

CHAR(18)

NOT NULL

TYPE

Section type:

  • C—Check constraint definition
  • V—View definition

CHAR(1)

NOT NULL

FORMAT

Section format; Value is I (I-tree)

CHAR(1)

NOT NULL

SEQUENCE

Sequence number of this portion of the section.

SMALLINT

NOT NULL

TEXT

Text of the section representing the check constraint or view definition.

BINARY(512)

NOT NULL