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function DatabaseSchema_mysql::getComment

Retrieve a table or column comment.

File

includes/database/mysql/schema.inc, line 496

Class

DatabaseSchema_mysql

Code

public function getComment($table, $column = NULL) {
 $condition = $this->buildTableNameCondition ($table);
 if (isset($column)) {
 $condition->condition ('column_name', $column);
 $condition->compile ($this->connection , $this);
 // Don't use {} around information_schema.columns table.
 return $this->connection 
 ->query ("SELECT column_comment AS column_comment FROM information_schema.columns WHERE " . (string) $condition, $condition->arguments ())
 ->fetchField ();
 }
 $condition->compile ($this->connection , $this);
 // Don't use {} around information_schema.tables table.
 $comment = $this->connection 
 ->query ("SELECT table_comment AS table_comment FROM information_schema.tables WHERE " . (string) $condition, $condition->arguments ())
 ->fetchField ();
 // Work-around for MySQL 5.0 bug http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=11379
 return preg_replace ('/; InnoDB free:.*$/', '', $comment);
}

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