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/sqlite-utils/issues/220#issuecomment-783662968,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/220,783662968,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDc4MzY2Mjk2OA==,649467,2021-02-22T20:44:51Z,2021-02-22T20:44:51Z,NONE,"Actually, coming back to this, I have a clearer use case for enabling fts generation for views: making it easier to bring in text from lookup tables and other joins. The datasette documentation describes populating an fts table like so: ``` INSERT INTO ""items_fts"" (rowid, name, description, category_name) SELECT items. rowid, items.name, items.description, categories.name FROM items JOIN categories ON items.category_id=categories.id; ``` Alternatively if you have fts support in sqlite_utils for views (which sqlite and fts5 support), you can do the same thing just by creating a view that captures the above joins as columns, then creating an fts table from that view. Such an fts table can be created using sqlite_utils, where one created with your method can't. The resulting fts table can then be used by a whole family of related tables and views in the manner you described earlier in this issue. ","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",783778672,