> I'm assuming this is not a regular pattern that has an idiomatic workaround?

You are correct. With SQLite the only option you have is to call your
user-defined function directly from your host language.


Pavel


On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Ben Harper <b...@imqs.co.za> wrote:
> OK.
>
> I'm assuming this is not a regular pattern that has an idiomatic workaround?
>
> Ben
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:sqlite-users-boun...@sqlite.org] On Behalf Of Pavel Ivanov
> Sent: 07 July 2011 05:18 PM
> To: General Discussion of SQLite Database
> Subject: Re: [sqlite] DROP TABLE yields SQLITE_LOCKED from user-defined 
> function
>
>> Is there something special one needs to do in order to drop a table from 
>> inside a user-defined function?
>>
>> To test, I call it simply like so:
>> SELECT my_function();
>
> It shouldn't be ever possible to change the database from within a
> function called from SELECT statement. SELECT query doesn't ever
> changes any data.
>
>
> Pavel
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Ben Harper <b...@imqs.co.za> wrote:
>> I have a user-defined function that I register with create_function.
>>
>> Inside my function I try to drop an r-tree virtual table, but I get the 
>> error SQLITE_LOCKED.
>>
>> Is there something special one needs to do in order to drop a table from 
>> inside a user-defined function?
>>
>> To test, I call it simply like so:
>> SELECT my_function();
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ben
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