On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Petite Abeille <petite.abei...@gmail.com>wrote:

>
> On Sep 24, 2013, at 7:59 PM, Dan Kennedy <danielk1...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > A double quoted string is treated as a column name if possible, or a
> > string literal otherwise. It's an SQL thing.
>
> Nah. The second part is a SQLite thing. Randomly converting identifiers
> into literals is more of a misfeature.
>

It was originally intended as a feature to provide enhanced MySQL
compatibility, since MySQL used to *require* double-quotes on strings.
Yes, it is something of a misfeature now, but we cannot change it without
breaking backwards compatibility.



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D. Richard Hipp
d...@sqlite.org
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