Henceforth and forward: Let the standards violator suffer his just rewards!" :-)
Dr., your just trying to supply the worlds greatest database, not take a bunch of slovenly coders to raise... -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of D. Richard Hipp Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 12:26 PM To: General Discussion of SQLite Database Subject: [sqlite] Proposed removal of (mis-)feature String literals in SQL are suppose to be enclosed in single-quotes - Pascal-style. Double-quotes are used around table and/or column names in cases where the name would otherwise be a keyword or when the name contains non-standard characters. But SQLite tries to be flexible and accommodating. To this end, it accepts some non-standard quoting mechanisms: 1. Names can be enclosed in [...] for compatibility with Access and SQLServer. 2. Names can be enclosed in grave accents for compatibility with MySQL. 3. Double-quoted names fall back to being string literals if there is no matching table or column name. In retrospect, (3) seems to be a bad idea. It is accident-prone and leads to all kinds of confusion. For example, if double-quotes are being used correctly (which is to say to quote table or column names) but a misspelling occurs in the name, the token reverts to being a string literal rather than throwing an error. Or if a double-quoted string really is being used as a string literal, but later a new column is added to a table that has the same name as the string text, the string literal will suddenly take on the value of the column. It seems like we have one or two problem reports per month on this mailing list that involve people using double-quoted names where they should be using single-quoted string literals instead. So I'm giving some thought to removing feature (3) above and disallowing double-quoted string literals. My concern is, though, that this might break many existing applications. What opinion do you, gentle users, have of this matter? D. Richard Hipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
