On 2017/03/19 11:05 AM, petern wrote:
Taking DRH's remarks about learning tclsqlite for the efficient coding to heart, I discovered a big problem.Here is the simplest example from the docs and DRH presentation: TCLSH % db function myhex {format 0x%X}; % db eval {select myhex(10);} x {parray x}; x(*) = myhex(10) x(myhex(10)) = 0xA Now, on the same database with simultaneous connection eg: shell, odbc, etc: sqlite> select myhex(10); Run Time: real 0.000 user 0.000000 sys 0.000000 Error: no such function: myhex ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Did I missing something in the docs? Is there a trick/pragma to make this work? Tclsqlite is extremely efficiently for extending sqlite but this facility is generally useless if the whole application must be ported to (or at least all db queries funneled through) TCLSH to use those easy to build extensions. What if the outer application can't be ported to TCL?
Adding a custom function (Whether done in your code using the API or using TCL or whatever) makes that function belong to the connection, a function cannot belong to the database or persist outside of the creating connection. tclsqlite is a great way to code for examples or reproducible bugs or even full DB maintenance scripts - but you can't use it together with your normal program code from a different connection. I'm not sure if there exist any way (or hack) to achieve this, maybe someone else knows, but what you tried won't work.
This is not a tclsqlite problem, if you open a connection from one of your programs, add to it a custom function, and then open another connection to the same DB from one of your other programs, the custom function will of course NOT exist for the second connection - it's strictly a per-connection thing, and the second connection must register its own custom function.
There exist some add-ons for sqlite which introduce ways of creating custom functions INSIDE the SQL via a query. Not sure if this will solve your problem, if so ask again (or google) for links to them.
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