I have identifiers that unfortunately have a hyphen within them.
I want to output the data from the tables with those identifiers using
.mode insert and .out foo.sql for re-loading.
I can't use .dump easily as i want to modify the tables before
re-loading the data, so .mode insert seemed my best option.
Now obviously, I could avoid the problem by avoiding hyphens, but my
database was written originally in XML and I'll have to change a fair
amount of code to undo my naming convention.
I have worked around this in PHP to modify the output, but figured it
would be useful to report the issue in the hope that it could be fixed
(or I could be shown a way to have this work correctly)
Regards
Jon
.mode insert does not appear to quote identifiers when needed.
qlite3 --version
3.11.0 2016-02-15 17:29:24 3d862f207e3adc00f78066799ac5a8c282430a5f
Example:
sqlite> create table "d-asher" ( "d-asher" TEXT );
Run Time: real 0.001 user 0.000000 sys 0.000000
sqlite> insert into "d-asher" ("d-asher") values ('a b c');
Run Time: real 0.000 user 0.000000 sys 0.000000
sqlite> .mode insert "d-asher"
sqlite> select * from "d-asher";
INSERT INTO 'd-asher'(*d-asher*) VALUES('a b c');
Run Time: real 0.000 user 0.000000 sys 0.000000
Re-entering that line throws a syntax error.
sqlite> INSERT INTO 'd-asher'(d-asher) VALUES('a b c');
Run Time: real 0.000 user 0.000000 sys 0.000000
Error: near "-": syntax error
.dump gets it right.
sqlite> .dump "d-asher"
PRAGMA foreign_keys=OFF;
BEGIN TRANSACTION;
CREATE TABLE *"d-asher" *(*"d-asher"*TEXT );
INSERT INTO "d-asher" VALUES('a b c');
COMMIT;
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