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Epic: Implement remaining information_schema tables #8916

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@JanKaul reported in Discord:

Hey all, I'm trying to use Datafusion with Apache Superset. Superset tries to fetch all available schemas using "information_schema.schemata". I realized that the "schemata" table is currently not implemented.

In general many BI and other tools with use the information_schema tables to determine the contents of a database. It would be nice to make DataFusion implementations more compatible with the ecosystem at large by implementing more of these tables

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It would be nice to implement more of the information_schema for DataFusion to increase the compatibility

There are many, many tables defined in the information_schema (see postgres docs , many of them potentially impossible to implement in DataFusion (e.g. administrable_role_​authorizations

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