Since my last question was not answered but instead another statement was made which I don't understand, I feel the need to reformulate my question to this: Why is it that SQLite can only support ALTER TABLE statements "that can be accomplished without having to rewrite the entire table"? [1] This includes statements to drop single columns out of a table. I understand that doing this might cause a considerable delay during which the database is not available, but the same applies to the VACUUM statement and that is very well supported. Could somebody maybe enlighten me?
If the developers deciding what SQLite can do and what not would state that they do not want, for personal reasons they don't want to disclose, to implement that particular feature, that's fine. But if that's the case, I'd be happy to hear that. Also, if there's a technical limitation preventing this, I'd like to understand it. Having no answer at all is a bit frustrating... [1] Richard Hipp, 2012-10-08 22:12 +0200, on this mailing list -- Yves Goergen - nospam.l...@unclassified.de - http://unclassified.de _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
