On 27 Dec 2010, at 12:01am, Drake Wilson wrote:

> Quoth Simon Slavin <slav...@bigfraud.org>, on 2010-12-26 23:49:50 +0000:
>> On the other hand, almost nobody who uses SQL has read the
>> specification document for SQL.  And frankly none of them should
>> have to: it's easier to understand SQL than the specification for
>> SQL.  So using a technical term that exists in the specification may
>> be useful for the SQLite developers, but may mean nothing to the
>> casual SQL user reading the SQLite documentation.
> 
> Sorry, I don't quite understand here.  To which term are you referring
> exactly?

The distinction between column constraints and table constraints is part of the 
spec of SQL.  Had you read the SQL spec first, you wouldn't have started this 
thread.  But nobody expects you to read the SQL spec before using SQL.

Simon.
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