"Scott Hess" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was getting ready to checkin the rowid-versus-fts2 fix, and wanted > to add one last bit, to upgrade older tables. > > Unfortunately, code of the form: > > ALTER TABLE x_segments ADD id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY; > > is documented as not supported. > http://www.sqlite.org/lang_altertable.html . As far as I can tell, > this means that there is no option to do a cheap schema upgrade to get > the correct semantics. Am I missing a trick? >
It appears that you can set PRAGMA writable_schema=ON; Then do a manual UPDATE of the sqlite_master table to insert an "id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY" into the SQL for the table definition. I tried it and it seems to work. But it is dangerous. If you mess up, you corrupt the database file. -- D. Richard Hipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
