I found the code in the two attached files (are they allowed on this list?) on the web a while back. The claim was that it created an information schema database from an sqlite db. I know nothing about Lua but I managed to get as far as creating the schema. Unfortunately, the url I got it from no longer has the code. but I'd be interested to know if it works.
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 9:00 AM, <sqlite-users-requ...@sqlite.org> wrote: > Message: 16 > Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 22:15:39 +0000 > From: Simon Slavin <slav...@bigfraud.org> > To: General Discussion of SQLite Database <sqlite-users@sqlite.org> > Subject: Re: [sqlite] pragma table_info(database.table) not supported > Message-ID: <c9f4c996-f601-4080-a23c-7dc5c58e7...@bigfraud.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > > On 20 Mar 2013, at 6:52pm, Petite Abeille <petite.abei...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > On Mar 20, 2013, at 6:53 PM, Jay A. Kreibich <j...@kreibi.ch> wrote: > > > >> If there is any change I'd like to see, it is that all the PRAGMAs > >> that return tabular data should really be system catalog tables. > > > > Triple hurray for that! SQLite deserves a proper data dictionary, no > question asked. > > > > What about adopting/adapting the information schema and call it a day? > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_schema > > Me three. I feel that this would be a better way to get details about the > currently connected database(s). It should replace all the PRAGMAs which > return details about tables, indexes, foreign keys, etc.. I do remember > someone posted code here a year or two ago which executed lots of PRAGMAs > and used the results to build such tables. It may have been this, or > related to it: > > <http://www.sqlite.org/cvstrac/wiki?p=InformationSchema> > > These tables could either be updated on any schema change, or could be > left uncalculated until a query on them is executed, or could be > created/updated on execution of a special command like ANALYSE. > Pete lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>
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