On 10 May 2006, at 16:31, sqlite wrote:
Eric Scouten wrote:
No such thing, really. In SQLite the data types are associated
with the cell, not the column.
Yes, I saw that. I'm not sure it's a good "feature".
Depends on your application. For us, it's been a very natural fit. It
may not fit your data or coding style well; if so, then you may want
to consider other DB engines.
The "declared type" of a column that you've found is used to
establish preferences for how cells are stored, but it is not a
hard requirement (unlike most other SQL implementations).
Internally SQLite seems to have a column "affinity".
That's what I need...
SQLite derives that by parsing the string that you've already found.
I think it does store that in some internal fashion, so it's not *re-
parsing* it constantly, but that is not available through the API.
-Eric
