On 26 Jan 2017, at 10:56pm, Michael Falconer <michael.j.falco...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> as I see it there is no problem here. Explicit quoting regardless, the
> column does not exist and an error is returned, isn't this the expected
> outcome?
Yet it’s not consistent. I should have given more examples, so here they are.
I can do this:
SQLite version 3.16.0 2016-11-04 19:09:39
Enter ".help" for usage hints.
sqlite> CREATE TABLE reports (a INT, b TEXT);
sqlite> CREATE INDEX index_reports_addition ON reports (1 + 2);
sqlite> PRAGMA index_xinfo(index_reports_addition);
0|-2||0|BINARY|1
1|-1||0|BINARY|0
which is an index based on a constant numeric expression, so that works. I can
do this:
sqlite> CREATE INDEX index_reports_string ON reports ('a' + b + 'c');
sqlite> PRAGMA index_xinfo(index_reports_string);
0|-2||0|BINARY|1
1|-1||0|BINARY|0
but I cannot do this:
sqlite> CREATE INDEX index_reports_3strings ON reports ('a',b,'c');
Error: no such column: c
Why is it objecting to 'c' here and not 'a' ? If I remove the 'c' I get
sqlite> CREATE INDEX index_reports_2strings ON reports ('a',b);
sqlite> PRAGMA index_xinfo(index_reports_2strings);
0|0|a|0|BINARY|1
1|1|b|0|BINARY|1
2|-1||0|BINARY|0
sqlite> CREATE INDEX index_reports_1string ON reports ('a');
sqlite> PRAGMA index_xinfo(index_reports_1string);
0|0|a|0|BINARY|1
1|-1||0|BINARY|0
so it seems there’s no problem with the 'a'. So why is it objecting to the 'c'
?
Simon.
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