P Kishor wrote:
> SQLite version 3.6.11
> Enter ".help" for instructions
> Enter SQL statements terminated with a ";"
> sqlite> CREATE TABLE foo (id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, desc TEXT, num
> INTEGER DEFAULT 0);
> sqlite> INSERT INTO foo (desc) VALUES ('foo');
> sqlite> INSERT INTO foo (desc) VALUES ('bar');
> sqlite> INSERT INTO foo (desc) VALUES ('baz');
> sqlite> SELECT * FROM foo;
> id desc num
> ---------- ---------- ----------
> 1 foo 0
> 2 bar 0
> 3 baz 0
> sqlite> CREATE TABLE bar AS SELECT * FROM foo;
> sqlite> .s
> CREATE TABLE bar(id INTEGER,"desc" TEXT,num INTEGER);
> CREATE TABLE foo (id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, desc TEXT, num INTEGER
> DEFAULT 0);
>
>
> Why did the definition of the column num change? Where did the
> DEFAULT 0 part go in the definition of num?
You don't make a copy of a table - you make a copy of the resultset of a
SELECT statement. Columns in said resultset don't carry attributes like
DEFAULT, even though columns in the underlying table may. Consider:
create table bar as
select id + 1, desc || 'xyz', num * id from foo;
What do you expect the definition of bar to be?
Igor Tandetnik
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