On 11/12/2010, at 12:58 PM, Petite Abeille wrote: > On Dec 11, 2010, at 2:29 AM, Simon Slavin wrote: > >> Then all the other PRAGMAs that do this could be removed > > While a consistent, comprehensive API would be nice, the problem with pragmas > is that, even though they return what looks like a result set, they are > neither selectable, nor queryable in plain SQL.
Yes, exactly. It is odd and frustrating to get a result from SQLite that can't be treated like a normal SQLite result. We need to be able to select... from.. where... order by... etc. > To me, pragmas look more like part of the problem than the solution due to > their lack of integration with SQL. Yes. By contrast, SQLite_Master doesn't give much, but since it's integrated with SQL, it's very useful. The few pragmas we have would be far more useful if they also integrated. > I'm in the opinion that a comprehensive data dictionary, accessible directly > from SQL, is the way to go. Yes, yes, yes :-) I think there's an SQL standard for introspective queries, isn't there? Is it something like MySQL's "INFORMATION_SCHEMA Tables", as per?: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/information-schema.html Thanks, Tom BareFeetWare -- Comparison of SQLite GUI tools: http://www.barefeetware.com/sqlite/compare/?ml _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
