Yes, thanks, I did forget about that.
Would the method with explain then be a good way to pick up that the pragma
was unknown, so invalid?
I suppose a simpler way might be to compare to all the pragma's produced by
pragma_list and determine that
pragma index_list is too short (missing the table).

RBS

On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 3:30 PM, David Raymond <david.raym...@tomtom.com>
wrote:

> Don't forget this point about pragmas:
>
> https://www.sqlite.org/pragma.html
> "No error messages are generated if an unknown pragma is issued. Unknown
> pragmas are simply ignored. This means if there is a typo in a pragma
> statement the library does not inform the user of the fact."
>
> That way if there's a typo, or if you try a new pragma in an old version
> then it won't complain, it just won't do anything.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sqlite-users [mailto:sqlite-users-boun...@mailinglists.sqlite.org]
> On Behalf Of Bart Smissaert
> Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2018 10:13 AM
> To: General Discussion of SQLite Database
> Subject: [sqlite] Is pragma index_list without supplied table name valid
> SQL?
>
> Using SQLite 3.22.0
>
> In my app I have code to determine if a given SQL string is data-producing,
> non-data producing or invalid. It uses these 3 SQLite functions:
>
> sqlite3_prepare_v3
> sqlite3_stmt_readonly
> sqlite3_column_count
>
> Have been using this code for a few years and sofar never failed, but now
> come across:
> pragma index_list
> so, without a supplied table name.
> This gives me data-producing and I think it should give me invalid.
>
> Firstly is this SQL indeed invalid?
>
> Secondly, if it is I need to add some code to pick this up and was thinking
> about using explain for that. Explain pragma index_list gives me:
>
> addr opcode p1 p2 p3 p4 p5 comment
> ---------------------------------------------------
> 0 Init 0 1 0  00 Start at 1
> 1 Halt 0 0 0  00
>
> And that to me looks it is indeed an invalid SQL as it gives a Halt already
> in the second row
> and produces no further rows.
>
> Am I right here and would this be a good way to pick up invalid SQL?
>
>
> RBS
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