On 1/3/16, Simon Slavin <slavins at bigfraud.org> wrote:
>
> On 3 Jan 2016, at 5:49pm, Richard Hipp <drh at sqlite.org> wrote:
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>>   /* Make sure every column of the PRIMARY KEY is NOT NULL.  (Except,
>>   ** do not enforce this for imposter tables.) */
>
> I've seen references to imposter tables in the SQLite comments.  What is an
> imposter table ?
>

An undocumented and unsupported feature that allows two or tables in
the schema to refer to the same b-tree.  This is used by the RBU
extension in order to update indexes and table independently of one
another.
-- 
D. Richard Hipp
drh at sqlite.org

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