On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 04:11:43PM +0200, Andy Gibbs scratched on the wall:

> Is it possible to do this in sqlite? 

  No.

> I know it would be possible to simply hard-code the default
> value into the UPDATE statement, but this would mean when
> updating the default in the table declaration, I then need
> to make sure all the UPDATEs match!

  You could extract the default value via PRAGMA table_info(name);  Bit
  of a pain, but it would keep everything in-sync.

   -j

-- 
Jay A. Kreibich < J A Y  @  K R E I B I.C H >

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