html_url,issue_url,id,node_id,user,created_at,updated_at,author_association,body,reactions,issue,performed_via_github_app
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/942#issuecomment-737402392,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/942,737402392,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDczNzQwMjM5Mg==,9599,2020-12-02T18:08:55Z,2020-12-02T18:08:55Z,OWNER,"SQLite does let you add comments in your CREATE TABLE statements:
```sql
CREATE TABLE something (
    id integer primary key, -- integer primary key
    created text -- created date as ISO datetime
);
```
But the only mechanism for reading those back is to retrieve that `CREATE TABLE` block of SQL from the `sqlite_master` table and run a parser against it.

I've so far resisted adding a SQL syntax parser to Datasette for complexity reasons - though I'm increasingly thinking I'll need to do it at some point.

I think I'll leave this to plugins. I'm definitely going to build a plugin that lets you store metadata for tables and columns in a SQLite database table, which will then support interactively editing metadata through a UI.

A plugin which extracts column comments from the SQLite CREATE TABLE comments would be feasible too, if I design the plugin hooks well.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",681334912,