Whether _you_ consider them problems or not, they were certainly problems for me, migrating a working application to version 3 and having it fall over in subtle ways because of these undocumented two vs three differences. They cost me several hours of unnecessary analysis time.
D. Richard Hipp wrote: > On Sep 1, 2009, at 4:38 PM, Rod Dav4is wrote: > > >> Aren't these problems considered worth fixing ? >> > > I do not consider them to be problems. > > >> Rod Dav4is wrote: >> >>> 1. *OID vs ROWID*: Specification of the OID field name (in >>> SELECT) >>> did not set Rexx variables X.OID.n, but instead set variables >>> x.ROWID.n >>> > > The "name" of a result column is undefined unless you use the "AS" > clause. We try to be reasonably consistent, but there are no > promises. There are especially no promises when moving form 2.8 to 3.6 > > > >>> 2. *Quotes in SELECT*: Specification of Field='3' failed to find >>> hits; Field=3 (i.e. without quotes) was required. >>> > > This is a feature, not a bug. SQLite 3.x distinguishes between > integers and strings and does not consider them equal to one another. > You might have some rows where Field='3' and different rows where > Field=3 and SQLite will distinguish between them. > > D. Richard Hipp > d...@hwaci.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@sqlite.org > http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > > > -- Regards, Rod Dav4is / P.O. Box 118 / Hyde Park, NY 12538 / USA Genealogy, et Cetera: http://freepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dav4is/ 538 ancestral & collateral families, mostly 17°-19° century New England & European roots. Total population: 136,000+ Annex: http://www.gencircles.com/users/dav4is/ email: dav...@yahoo.com A Democrat, a Republican and a giraffe walk into a bar. The bartender looks up from his want ads and says, "What is this, a joke?" -unknown _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
