Sorry if this is not in context but I thought that since you are the dev for gerald I thought this would be the best place to ask . Anyway, I am using Sqlpython and gerald 0.3.6 but it seems to be having trouble with getting the metadata. I followed you advice from the sqlpython google group to apply that patch to gerald which does seem to have gotten it further but but it still fails on the same thing which is “_DEFAULT_AUDITING_OPTIONS_”.

I would really appreciate some help because atm I cannot really do anything with it as i cannot even do desc table because of the metadata problem. Could this have something to do with the perms that the user has connecting to the db??? Because as a dev in corporate sector I will never have full dba assess to the oracle db’s??

Anyway, here is my error in full detail:

[me@lcs ~]$ sqlpython user/pass@dbalias
/bin/sh: xclip: command not found
/usr/bin/vim
0:user@dbalias> Exception in thread Thread-1:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/threading.py”, line 522, in __bootstrap_inner
self.run()
File “/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/sqlpython-1.7.1-py2.6.egg/sqlpython/connections.py”, line 277, in run
newgerald = gerald_classes[self.db_instance.rdbms](self.db_instance.username, self.db_instance.conn_data.gerald_uri())
File “/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/gerald-0.3.6-py2.6.egg/gerald/schema.py”, line 97, in __init__
self.schema = self._get_schema(self._cursor)
File “/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/gerald-0.3.6-py2.6.egg/gerald/oracle_schema.py”, line 168, in _get_schema
self._set_unless_fail(schema, table_key, table_name, Table, cursor, owner)
File “/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/gerald-0.3.6-py2.6.egg/gerald/schema.py”, line 232, in _set_unless_fail
schema[key] = object_type(object_name, *args)
File “/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/gerald-0.3.6-py2.6.egg/gerald/schema.py”, line 324, in __init__
self._get_table(cursor)
File “/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/gerald-0.3.6-py2.6.egg/gerald/oracle_schema.py”, line 287, in _get_table
raise AttributeError, “Can’t get DDL for table %s” % uc_table_name
AttributeError: Can’t get DDL for table _DEFAULT_AUDITING_OPTIONS_