On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 5:56 PM, Roger Binns <rog...@rogerbinns.com> wrote:
>
> Hamish Allan wrote:
>>
>> I'm sure there are ways you could work around the absence of
>> "IF NOT EXISTS" in the simple "CREATE TABLE" case too. So why have the
>> clause there?
>
> I assume because it is part of the SQL standard :-)

But the SQL standard does not mandate that if there is a CREATE
VIRTUAL TABLE statement, that it must lack the IF NOT EXISTS clause,
does it? ;)

> They are also mangled as part of the release process, for example to include
> version information.  When I build from trunk, I use this:
>
>  make TOP=. -f Makefile.linux-gcc sqlite3.c
>
> And then substitute the sqlite3.c into an amalgamation build.  (Not quite
> but conceptually the same.)  Note that Makefile.linux-gcc is not an
> auto-tools Makefile/configure.

Thanks!

Hamish
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