On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Petite Abeille <petite.abei...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sep 3, 2014, at 3:01 PM, Dominique Devienne <ddevie...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Asked differently, if adding this support, could this be done by adding >> virtual / computed columns to tables, and indexing those columns? > > Ohohohoho… virtual columns [1][2]…. yes… shinny! :) > > Now that would be rather cool. > > On the other hand, if one had to choose, I would rather see a MERGE > statement, than some funky virtual columns. > > While virtual columns are handy at time, they are a bit exotic, all things > being equal. > > On the other hand, MERGE is a must have. No amount of creative select + > insert + update concoctions can begin to compensate for its absence in > SQLite. A huge gap altogether. > > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_column > [2] http://www.oracle-base.com/articles/11g/virtual-columns-11gr1.php >
Those are _both_ nice features. I don't know for sure, but somehow it seems that virtual columns would be easier to implement. OTOH, I really like what I've just read about the MERGE statement. I only use SQLite and PostgreSQL. So I had never heard of MERGE before, but the Oracle documentation on them, and the example, look interesting. -- There is nothing more pleasant than traveling and meeting new people! Genghis Khan Maranatha! <>< John McKown _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
