We had a latent bug about an invalid view hiding in our code, which was recently revealed when we upgraded SQLite to 3.7.16.2 (I test with 1.15.2 below, but that's the same).
I guess that's good, thanks Richard :) But that brings up the question about why the create view itself does not fail? Thanks, --DD C:\Users\DDevienne>sqlite3 SQLite version 3.7.15.2 2013-01-09 11:53:05 Enter ".help" for instructions Enter SQL statements terminated with a ";" sqlite> create table a (b int primary key, c); sqlite> create table d (e int primary key, f, g); sqlite> create view v as select * from a union all select * from d; sqlite> select * from v; Error: SELECTs to the left and right of UNION ALL do not have the same number of result columns sqlite> explain select rowid from v; Error: SELECTs to the left and right of UNION ALL do not have the same number of result columns sqlite> .q C:\Users\DDevienne>sqlite3.7.8 SQLite version 3.7.8 2011-09-19 14:49:19 Enter ".help" for instructions Enter SQL statements terminated with a ";" sqlite> create table a (b int primary key, c); sqlite> create table d (e int primary key, f, g); sqlite> create view v as select * from a union all select * from d; sqlite> select * from v; sqlite> explain select rowid from v; 0|Trace|0|0|0||00| 1|Goto|0|15|0||00| 2|OpenRead|2|2|0|2|00| 3|Rewind|2|7|0||00| 4|Null|0|1|0||00| 5|ResultRow|1|1|0||00| 6|Next|2|4|0||01| 7|Close|2|0|0||00| 8|OpenRead|1|4|0|3|00| 9|Rewind|1|13|0||00| 10|Null|0|1|0||00| 11|ResultRow|1|1|0||00| 12|Next|1|10|0||01| 13|Close|1|0|0||00| 14|Halt|0|0|0||00| 15|Transaction|0|0|0||00| 16|VerifyCookie|0|3|0||00| 17|TableLock|0|2|0|a|00| 18|TableLock|0|4|0|d|00| 19|Goto|0|2|0||00| sqlite> .q _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users