A Drent wrote: > a.. When new tables are created using CREATE TABLE ... AS SELECT ... > the datatype of the columns is the simplified SQLite datatype (TEXT, > INT, REAL, NUMERIC, or BLOB) instead of a copy of the original > datatype from the source table. > > I don't know why this has been done
Because, in general, there ain't no such thing as a "source table". Consider: create table newTable as select 1, a+1, b+c, case when d then e else f end from oldTable1 join oldTable2 on someCondition; > If this is necessary why not then just allow the > primitive datatypes within the 'create'? I'm not sure I understand. You can use any datatypes you want in CREATE TABLE, just not in CREATE TABLE AS SELECT. If you need a table with particular column types, create it the way you want, then use INSERT ... SELECT to populate it. Igor Tandetnik _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
