Retrieve a table or column comment.
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 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 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);
}