html_url,issue_url,id,node_id,user,created_at,updated_at,author_association,body,reactions,issue,performed_via_github_app
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/942#issuecomment-737463116,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/942,737463116,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDczNzQ2MzExNg==,9599,2020-12-02T20:02:10Z,2020-12-02T20:03:01Z,OWNER,"My idea is that if you installed my proposed plugin you wouldn't need `metadata.json` at all - your metadata would instead live in a table in the connected SQLite database files - either one table per database (so the metadata can live in the same place as the data) or maybe also in a dedicated separate database file, for if you want to add metadata to an otherwise read-only database.

The plugin would then provide a UI for editing that metadata - maybe by configuring some writable canned queries or maybe something more custom than that. Or you could edit the metadata by manually editing the SQLite database file (or loading data into it using a tool like [yaml-to-sqlite](https://github.com/simonw/yaml-to-sqlite)).","{""total_count"": 1, ""+1"": 1, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",681334912,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/942#issuecomment-737402392,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/942,737402392,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDczNzQwMjM5Mg==,9599,2020-12-02T18:08:55Z,2020-12-02T18:08:55Z,OWNER,"SQLite does let you add comments in your CREATE TABLE statements:
```sql
CREATE TABLE something (
    id integer primary key, -- integer primary key
    created text -- created date as ISO datetime
);
```
But the only mechanism for reading those back is to retrieve that `CREATE TABLE` block of SQL from the `sqlite_master` table and run a parser against it.

I've so far resisted adding a SQL syntax parser to Datasette for complexity reasons - though I'm increasingly thinking I'll need to do it at some point.

I think I'll leave this to plugins. I'm definitely going to build a plugin that lets you store metadata for tables and columns in a SQLite database table, which will then support interactively editing metadata through a UI.

A plugin which extracts column comments from the SQLite CREATE TABLE comments would be feasible too, if I design the plugin hooks well.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",681334912,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/942#issuecomment-727626657,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/942,727626657,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDcyNzYyNjY1Nw==,9599,2020-11-15T19:54:44Z,2020-11-15T19:54:44Z,OWNER,This will also benefit from the metadata plugin hook: #860 ,"{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",681334912,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/942#issuecomment-675720040,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/942,675720040,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDY3NTcyMDA0MA==,9599,2020-08-18T21:05:24Z,2020-08-18T21:05:24Z,OWNER,"Is `columns` the right key for this in the table metadata block? I might want to use that for initial values for `?_col=` in #615.

Alternative names:

- `column_descriptions`
- `column_info`","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",681334912,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/942#issuecomment-675718593,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/942,675718593,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDY3NTcxODU5Mw==,9599,2020-08-18T21:02:11Z,2020-08-18T21:02:24Z,OWNER,"Easiest solution: if you provide column metadata it gets displayed above the table, something like on https://fivethirtyeight.datasettes.com/fivethirtyeight/antiquities-act%2Factions_under_antiquities_act

<img width=""500"" alt=""fivethirtyeight__antiquities-act_actions_under_antiquities_act__344_rows"" src=""https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/9599/90565187-57d3e700-e15b-11ea-89c8-0270e3040a50.png"">

HTML `title=` tooltips are also added to the table headers, which won't be visible on touch devices but that's OK because the information is visible on the page already.","{""total_count"": 1, ""+1"": 1, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",681334912,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/942#issuecomment-675715472,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/942,675715472,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDY3NTcxNTQ3Mg==,9599,2020-08-18T20:55:02Z,2020-08-18T20:55:02Z,OWNER,"Could display these as tooltips on icons something like this (from the experimental `datasette-inspect-columns` plugin):

<img width=""500"" alt=""fixtures__facetable__15_rows_and_NOAA_tides_second_attempt_-_Jupyter_Notebook"" src=""https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/9599/90564416-37eff380-e15a-11ea-95e5-b556e9039a2a.png"">

This would need to take accessibility into account, and would need a different display for the mobile web layout. Need to consider how it will interact with the column menu suggested in #690.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",681334912,