On July 14, 2019 11:56:15 p.m. EDT, Donald Shepherd <donald.sheph...@gmail.com> wrote: >Somewhat bizarrely only "BLOB" affinity doesn't make it from the >original >table to the new table when using the "select" syntax to create the new >table. Even items with aliased affinities (VARTEXT, or something that >defaults to NUMERIC) comes across as the base affinity but at least >have an >affinity. > >This is simple to reproduce: > >sqlite> .version >SQLite 3.29.0 2019-07-10 17:32:03 >fc82b73eaac8b36950e527f12c4b5dc1e147e6f4ad2217ae43ad82882a88bfa6 >zlib version 1.2.11 >gcc-5.2.0 >sqlite> create table x(a int, b text, c real, d blob, e vartext, f >garbage); >sqlite> pragma table_info(x); >0|a|int|0||0 >1|b|text|0||0 >2|c|real|0||0 >3|d|blob|0||0 >4|e|vartext|0||0 >5|f|garbage|0||0 >sqlite> create table y as select * from x; >sqlite> pragma table_info(y); >0|a|INT|0||0 >1|b|TEXT|0||0 >2|c|REAL|0||0 >3|d||0||0 >4|e|TEXT|0||0 >5|f|NUM|0||0 >sqlite> select * from sqlite_master; >table|x|x|2|CREATE TABLE x(a int, b text, c real, d blob, e vartext, f >garbage) >table|y|y|3|CREATE TABLE y( > a INT, > b TEXT, > c REAL, > d, > e TEXT, > f NUM >) >_______________________________________________ >sqlite-users mailing list >sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org >http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
Blobs have no affinity. The result you're seeing is correct, just represented in a surprising way. -- J. King _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
