On 21 Oct 2016, at 4:42am, sanhua.zh <sanhua...@foxmail.com> wrote: > I am trying to rename a table by editing the sqlite_master directly. I do > know there are a ‘ALTER TABLE … RENAME TO …’ syntax to do that. I just want > to try it in this way. > But I find that the ‘no such table’ error occurs while I try to drop the > renamed table.
SQLite does not look at the sqlite_master table before executing each command. It has a copy of the database schema in the memory allocated to the connection. You are changing the details saved on disk but not the copy in memory. > Only I close the connection or start a new connection, the renamed table can > be dropped. That makes sense. Simon. _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
