On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Gerry Snyder <mesmerizer...@gmail.com> wrote: > Beau Wilkinson wrote: >> .... >> If the schema changes, a listing of every column can be invalidated, but >> the asterisk cannot.... > > OTOH, a listing of every column may catch a query which is no longer > valid, and the asterisk will not.
Not really arguing *for* the asterisk, but, the counter your argument, on the other hand, a query with asterisk will *always* be valid, eh! -- Puneet Kishor http://www.punkish.org Carbon Model http://carbonmodel.org Charter Member, Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org Science Commons Fellow, http://sciencecommons.org/about/whoweare/kishor Nelson Institute, UW-Madison http://www.nelson.wisc.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Assertions are politics; backing up assertions with evidence is science ======================================================================= Sent from Madison, WI, United States _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
