On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 3:22 PM, Richard Hipp <drh at sqlite.org> wrote: > On 4/23/16, Igor Korot <ikorot01 at gmail.com> wrote: >> I merely tried to ask why in SQLite one can't have an information >> about the table field size - that is all. > > Answer: That information would consume memory.
Thank you. That was that simple. ;-) > > We are under constant pressure to reduce the (already small) memory > footprint of SQLite even further. Adding new fields to the Column > object to record the size of VARCHARs and whatnot, is moving in the > wrong direction. > -- > D. Richard Hipp > drh at sqlite.org > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users at mailinglists.sqlite.org > http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
