base table table?

[bradfordcondon]

Something I was reflecting on with Tripal is we do a lot of weird checks to determine if a chado table is a base table or not-- and even then, we have to hardcode quite a few in.

Has a table of tables ever been proposed? In our case t could just be a table listing the base table names, but it could be expanded to have a type_id for each table. Or, is htere another way to access metadata about a table to get a base table list? When people add custom tables to chado, they could just insert their base table into the table of tables.