On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 12:51:07PM -0700, J. R. Westmoreland scratched on the wall: > I have the following table creation statements and get an error. > > Functioning statement > CREATE TABLE xxx (ID INTEGERPRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT, .)
> If I remove the PRIMARY KEY" part of the statement, according to the docs on > SQL that should be still a valid statement, I get an error. AUTOINCREMENT is only a valid modifier to INTEGER PRIMARY KEY. > Brken statement: > CREATE TABLE zzz (ID INTEGER AUTOINCREMENT .); > > But, if I change "AUTOINCREMENT "AUTO_INCREMENT" it works Yes, but it doesn't mean anything. You've defined a user-type of "INTEGER AUTO_INCREMENT", which is about as meaningful to SQLite as "INTEGER PINEAPPLE" (also valid). http://sqlite.org/autoinc.html Also, see the syntax diagram here: http://sqlite.org/syntaxdiagrams.html#column-constraint -j -- Jay A. Kreibich < J A Y @ K R E I B I.C H > "Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs. We have a protractor." "I'll go home and see if I can scrounge up a ruler and a piece of string." --from Anathem by Neal Stephenson _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
