See https://www.sqlite.org/lang_altertable.html ... the ALTER TABLE
command, by default, now alters references to it in triggers/views.
To get the old behaviour, which I believe you need, use:
PRAGMA legacy_alter_table=ON
Graham
Monday, April 01, 2019, 11:23:45 AM, Domingo Alvarez Duarte
<mingo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello !
> I'm using sqlite3 for a long time and I used to be able to drop tables
> that have views without error before but now it seems that it is not
> possible anymore.
> I mainly use it to restructure tables (add/move/remove fields) with
> something like this:
> ====
> PRAGMA foreign_keys=OFF;
> BEGIN;
> CREATE TABLE "banks___new"(
> id integer primary key,
> account_id integer references ledger_accounts(id),
> name varchar not null collate nocase unique,
> new_field integer, -------------- for example here I'm adding a new
> field
> notes text collate nocase
> );
> INSERT INTO "banks___new"(
> "id",
> "account_id",
> "name",
> "notes"
> )
> SELECT
> "id",
> "account_id",
> "name",
> "notes"
> FROM "banks";
> DROP TABLE "banks";
> ALTER TABLE "banks___new" RENAME TO "banks";
> PRAGMA foreign_key_check;
> COMMIT;
> PRAGMA foreign_keys=ON;
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