Re: [sqlite] When to release version 3.3.10?

2007-01-05 Thread Mario Frasca
I've read this article more than once and I still find it inspiring... http://catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/ar01s04.html I'd say, you have the fix, just release it, why not? if you're waiting for a next bug, you'll never have the guarantee that "tomorrow" no bug wil

Re: [sqlite] a question about muticonnection

2006-12-07 Thread Mario Frasca
Christian Smith wrote: You can use the rowid to track the row version, and a unique constraint on your key to track conflicts. When updating a record, read the row, including the rowid. Update any columns. When writing the row out, delete the existing rowid, then insert the new updated row,

Re: [sqlite] a question about muticonnection

2006-12-06 Thread Mario Frasca
hongdong wrote: I just have a base question: assume user A and user B now both connection to a same database and both of them want to update a same record,but only one is allowed in this condition: A begin to browse the data in a client application,and load rowid into GUI and keep it in me

Re: [sqlite] Query generation

2006-12-06 Thread Mario Frasca
Lloyd wrote: select a from mytable where (b=0) and and this is a syntax error. you're not saying which language you're using. in Python a common solution looks like this: clauses = [] # add strings to the clauses list, like clauses.append('(b=0)') # join the parts using appropriate glue wh

Re: [sqlite] autoincrement and integer primary key

2006-11-16 Thread Mario Frasca
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the FAQ's on the web site it indicated that when the primary key is autoincrement, the data type is a signed 64 bit number. Has this been your experience? never noticed... not in Python with the sqlite modules I have... and no difference whether I use the 'auto

Re: [sqlite] index in CREATE TABLE

2006-11-15 Thread Mario Frasca
Cécilia Vigny wrote: With MySQL, it's possible to declare an index in CREATE TABLE, using KEY, like in this example : CREATE TABLE table_name ( id int(6) NOT NULL auto_increment, field_name date default NULL, PRIMARY KEY (id), KEY idx_field_name (fieldname), ) ; I want to know if there

Re: [sqlite] autoincrement and integer primary key

2006-11-15 Thread Mario Frasca
just a few explainatory notes from me to myself, hoping that they might be useful for the community... again about integer primary key autoincrement, with some details about last_insert_rowid() and sqlite_sequence. --- e

Re: [sqlite] using auto increment in java

2006-11-14 Thread Mario Frasca
On 11/11/2006 10:16 PM, Will Leshner wrote: You should be able to get the last inserted rowid using the last_insert_rowid() function in a query: SELECT last_insert_rowid(); sorry for the slow reaction, but I had to check my own code first... On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:47:21 +0200, Nemanja Corlij

Re: [sqlite] LEFT OUTER JOIN + INNER JOIN problem

2006-11-14 Thread Mario Frasca
Gábor Farkas wrote: i think it should only output the first row ( "5|admin|1|5|1|john" ) tried what you describe and get the answer you expect, not the one you got: sqlite> select * from role ...> LEFT OUTER JOIN person_role on role.id = person_role.role_id ...> INNER JOIN person on perso

Re: [sqlite] problem in deleting

2006-10-12 Thread Mario Frasca
Narendran wrote: I like to say it properly, i am deleting ,it does delete. but i am trying to delete again, no error code is returned, there is no error... """delete from hai where ;""" means: delete all records from table hai for which the test is true. doing the same delete a second ti

Re: [sqlite] strange behavior of "<" and ">" operator

2006-09-13 Thread Mario Frasca
Andrea Federico Grisotto wrote: *fromId* and *toId* are VARCHAR, if I use *int* the behavior is correct, excuse me again, but remain the difference behavior between sqlite and Mysql. just food for thought: when you're asking an ambiguous question (like in the case of comparing apples with p

Re: [sqlite] Database on usbstick

2006-09-05 Thread Mario Frasca
Sergio 'OKreZ' Agosti wrote: On 05/set/06, at 15:03, eWobbuh wrote: I still cant find it. Cant find anything about where to look for a database. [...] The name of the database passed to the open function actually is the path to the database file yes, where maybe we could add that sqlit

Re: [sqlite] Database on usbstick

2006-09-05 Thread Mario Frasca
eWobbuh wrote: Havent try it yet, just wondering if its possible. Do you know how you tell sqlite where to find a database? havent worked before with it.. only with mysql http://www.sqlite.org contains a link to 'documentation'. the very impatient reader will follow 'sqlite in 5 minutes or l

Re: [sqlite] Database on usbstick

2006-09-05 Thread Mario Frasca
eWobbuh wrote: here a sqlite noob. Is it possible in linux to have a sqlite database on a usb stick which i can acces from an hard disk? On the hard disk runs linux with sqlite. have you already tried? I don't think there should be any problems, except possibly regarding the performance...

Re: [sqlite] Performance Question

2006-08-31 Thread Mario Frasca
Rob Sciuk wrote: On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, Mario Frasca wrote: I understand your concern about legacy programs, but most of us expect PRIMARY KEY to imply NOT NULL... don't we? I have to go along with Mario, here. This is a potential show stopper, I would not be that negative

Re: [sqlite] problem with auto increment of ROWID

2006-08-30 Thread Mario Frasca
Dixon Hutchinson wrote: I have not reach a point of creating a "maximum possible ROWID", I'm only at three rows. it's a matter of definition... if you just reached three rows, without deletions, then the maximum rowid is 3. If I actually specify AUTOINCREMENT, then an insert will fail w

Re: [sqlite] problem with auto increment of ROWID

2006-08-30 Thread Mario Frasca
Dixon Hutchinson wrote: H:\b>sqlite3.exe t.dat SQLite version 3.3.7 Enter ".help" for instructions sqlite> CREATE TABLE abc ...> ( ...> c TEXT, ...> p INTEGER, ...> t TEXT, ...> masked INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, ...>

Re: [sqlite] problem with auto increment of ROWID

2006-08-30 Thread Mario Frasca
Dixon Hutchinson wrote: [...] I was hoping to get the behavior specified at http://www.sqlite.org/autoinc.html. where the AUTOINCREMENT keyword is not used. but you are getting quite exactly what is stated there: «If you ever delete rows or if you ever create a row with the maximum possibl

Re: [sqlite] Performance Question

2006-08-30 Thread Mario Frasca
On 2006-0829 13:15:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To my surprise (perhaps "horror") I find that SQLite has for a very long time allowed NULL values in PRIMARY KEY columns. [...] I understand your concern about legacy programs, but most of us expect PRIMARY KEY to imply NOT NULL... don't we

Re: [sqlite] Performance Question

2006-08-29 Thread Mario Frasca
Mario Frasca wrote: Kurt Welgehausen wrote: [...] should I write a bug ticket about a primary key accepting nulls? there is already a ticket for that: 518. I reopened it three days ago. I have right now attached a patch for it. it is quite small and I hope it fits in the current style

Re: [sqlite] Performance Question

2006-08-29 Thread Mario Frasca
Kurt Welgehausen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Saying NOT NULL on a PRIMARY KEY is redundant, by the way. [...] Am I missing something, or should I write a bug ticket about a primary key accepting nulls? there is already a ticket for that: 518. I reopened it three days ago. reg

[sqlite] duplicate primary key

2006-08-25 Thread Mario Frasca
I'm recording this behaviour: sqlite> create table test(f integer primary key autoincrement, v integer default 0); sqlite> insert into test(f) values(NULL); sqlite> insert into test(f) values(NULL); sqlite> insert into test(f) values(NULL); sqlite> select * from test; 1|0 2|0 3|0 this is very

Re: [sqlite] Seems like a bug in the parser

2006-08-23 Thread Mario Frasca
Joe Wilson wrote: --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SQLite accepts the above and does the right thing with it. It is the equivalent of saying: SELECT a FROM (SELECT a,b FROM qqq GROUP BY b); Not sure what you mean by the "right thing". It's not obvious why the rows returned by this GROUP BY

Re: [sqlite] primary key information

2006-08-07 Thread Mario Frasca
Nemanja Corlija wrote: I think in any other case unique index would be created as expected. sqlite> drop table test; sqlite> create table test (ni integer, pk_name varchar(32) primary key, info integer); sqlite> pragma index_list(test); 0|sqlite_autoindex_test_1|1 sqlite> pragma table_info(t

Re: [sqlite] primary key information

2006-08-07 Thread Mario Frasca
Nemanja Corlija wrote: If you turn the headers on (.header ON) you'll see that the last column of table_info() output is "pk". This column indicates weather or not the table column in question is part of primary key. Though that last column of table_info() pragma is missing from documentation

[sqlite] primary key information

2006-08-07 Thread Mario Frasca
hallo, list... how do I get primary key information about a table? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sqlite3 /data/mariof/test.db SQLite version 3.3.6 Enter ".help" for instructions sqlite> drop table test; sqlite> create table test (pk integer primary key, name varchar(32), info integer); sqlite> create u

Re: [sqlite] date data types

2006-08-06 Thread Mario Frasca
Kees Nuyt wrote: Will PRAGMA table_info(tablename); do? >>> from pysqlite2 import dbapi2 >>> db = dbapi2.connect('/data/mariof/test.db') >>> cr = db.cursor() >>> cr.execute('pragma table_info(test3)') >>> cr.fetchall() [(0, u'd', u'date', 0, None, 0), (1, u'h', u'time', 0, None, 0), (2, u't'

Re: [sqlite] date data types

2006-08-04 Thread Mario Frasca
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adding DATE and TIMEINTERVAL types to SQLite would require an incompatible file format change. well, yes, that was already clear. but: where is the type of the data being stored? aren't there a few spare bits to use for 'future additions', that is, new data types?

Re: [sqlite] date data types

2006-08-04 Thread Mario Frasca
Nuno Lucas wrote: You need to get the column declared type and convert it to the type you want based on that. mmm... so I would look at it in a statically typed way. it sounds reasonable and is surely acceptable for me. but: how do I get the declared type of the column? currently the pyt

Re: [sqlite] date data types

2006-08-04 Thread Mario Frasca
Dennis Cote wrote: Mario Frasca wrote: where I would expect: sqlite> select datetime('now'); 2006-08-03 11:36:32.211032 sqlite> select typeof(datetime('now')); datetime sqlite> select datetime('now') - date('2006-01-01'); 214 11:36:51.29

[sqlite] date data types

2006-08-03 Thread Mario Frasca
are there any plans to support more data types than NULL, INTEGER, REAL, TEXT, BLOB? in particular I am interested in support of: DATE, DATETIME, TIMEDELTA. I tried the datetime functions, but: sqlite> select datetime('now'); 2006-08-03 11:36:32 sqlite> select typeof(datetime('now')); text sql

[sqlite] insert default values - implemented

2006-08-01 Thread Mario Frasca
Mario Frasca wrote: I'm throwing this here, I assume that it would not be too much work to complete this patch. the aim is to support the sql92 syntax insert into default values; all right, a possible complete patch, maybe could be added to the rest... don't tell me that it loo

Re: [sqlite] Re: insert default values - supporting it?

2006-08-01 Thread Mario Frasca
just to show that it does not crash: sqlite> create table test2 (k integer primary key autoincrement); sqlite> insert into test2 default values; sqlite> insert into test2 () values (); sqlite> select * from test2; 1 2 sqlite>

Re: [sqlite] Re: insert default values - supporting it?

2006-08-01 Thread Mario Frasca
I refined the patch. it constructs a list of values with one NULL, but I don't see how to construct an idList with just the primary key. also added the grammar rule to recognize both: insert into default values; insert into () values (); anybody completing/correcting the work? sqlite> ins

[sqlite] Re: insert default values - supporting it?

2006-07-31 Thread Mario Frasca
I'm throwing this here, I assume that it would not be too much work to complete this patch. the aim is to support the sql92 syntax insert into default values; any comments? hints? thanks in advance, Mario Frasca. cvs diff: Diffing src Index: src/ins

Re: [sqlite] insert default values

2006-07-28 Thread Mario Frasca
On 2006-0728 16:47:21, Nemanja Corlija wrote: > You can get that with this query: > select seq from sqlite_sequence where name='test' [...] > > There is also a last_insert_rowid() [...] > sqlite_sequence is really the way to go. very useful comments from everybody, thanks! Mario -- Power c

Re: [sqlite] insert default values

2006-07-28 Thread Mario Frasca
On 2006-0728 16:07:47, Nemanja Corlija wrote: > You can insert default value like this: > insert into test (f) values (NULL); > > Inserting NULL into autoincrement field just increments it. While > omitting value for any other field uses default for that field, if one > is defined. next question

Re: [sqlite] insert default values

2006-07-28 Thread Mario Frasca
On 2006-0728 07:05:54, Gerry Snyder wrote: > sqlite> insert into test (f) values (NULL); > sqlite> select * from test; > 1|1 > 2|2 > 3| > 4|0 I'm sorry, I did not see the message before... it is a bit of a funny behaviour, but I think I can live with it... thanks again, Mario -- Never, under a

Re: [sqlite] insert default values

2006-07-28 Thread Mario Frasca
Hi Gerry, yes, your help was quite useful... now we have two problems here, I would say: the first one is that, of all the things you have tried, only one is correct but two more are accepted without causing an error. On 2006-0728 06:55:22, Gerry Snyder wrote: > sqlite> create table test(f int a

[sqlite] insert default values

2006-07-28 Thread Mario Frasca
ror sqlite> insert into test () values (); SQL error: near ")": syntax error actually, missing auto_increment and sequences, inserting an 'all default' record is just a style exercise, not really particularly useful... thanks, Mario Frasca -- Die Welt wird nicht bedroht von den Menschen, die böse sind, sondern von denen, die das Böse zulassen -- Albert Einstein