-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Tim Romano wrote: > I would hope that it could be included by default.
[Note I do not speak on behalf of the SQLite team but have been an observer for many years] Your request is extremely unlikely to go into the SQLite core as the bar is *very* high. This is not because the SQLite team hates you, but because of the principles and practise. Firstly it has *Lite* in the name and they really mean that. Secondly anything that goes in has to stay in and be supported and tested forever as they don't break backwards compatibility except under extraordinary circumstances. In context, you are already using SQLite from some programming language and so have its full facilities available. SQLite also has an API that makes it very easy to extend functionality for functions, collations, virtual tables and file/operating system access. So for example you will note SQLite has no statistical functions although arguably they could be useful to many (but not all) SQLite users. However they can be added via host language or the SQLite API. For example your desired function plus many others are already provided by contributions - see the bottom of: http://sqlite.org/contrib Quite simply you refuse to use the existing extension mechanisms (your host language, SQLite's API), can wait for a long time (hence not a priority), have not had others clamouring for this functionality (see mailing list archives), have ambiguous functionality requirements that may differ from others and yet still somehow expect the SQLite team to do this, expect them to make it default, expect the various packagers of SQLite libraries to also make it default and expect other SQLite users to hack it out for size reasons? Really? Really :-) Roger -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAksFveAACgkQmOOfHg372QSmSgCeNvBLIQJri7AUh9RKXdcl008n yw8AoMjx5ZvsSFnF4r4fPXpuwrRyE/HQ =nt/g -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
