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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. 

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