[mythtv-users] Which table?

[Michael Sullivan]

On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 10:04 -0500, David Engel wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 04:20:35PM -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> > Now, I'd like to know (in mythtv-0.21) how to find the shows that have
> > been manually marked not to record, and perform searches on keywords I
> > have entered in mythfrontend...
> 
> I'm sorry to burst you guys' bubble, but there is no table you can
> query to get the current recording schedule.  That information is only
> kept in memory on the master backend and you need to use the Myth
> protocol QUERY_GETALLPENDING command to retrieve it.  If you'd like to
> have a simple table that could be queried, work up a patch and we'll
> consider adding it.
> 
> David

So what exactly is the database with its ten million tables used for?