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A more promising route I found involved the db.set_authorizer method. This can be used to log the permission checks that SQLite uses, including checks for permission to access specific columns of specific tables. For a while I thought this could work!

>>> def print_args(*args, **kwargs):
...    print("args", args, "kwargs", kwargs)
...    return sqlite3.SQLITE_OK

>>> db = sqlite3.connect("fixtures.db")
>>> db.execute('select * from compound_primary_key join facetable on rowid').fetchall()
args (21, None, None, None, None) kwargs {}
args (20, 'compound_primary_key', 'pk1', 'main', None) kwargs {}
args (20, 'compound_primary_key', 'pk2', 'main', None) kwargs {}
args (20, 'compound_primary_key', 'content', 'main', None) kwargs {}
args (20, 'facetable', 'pk', 'main', None) kwargs {}
args (20, 'facetable', 'created', 'main', None) kwargs {}
args (20, 'facetable', 'planet_int', 'main', None) kwargs {}
args (20, 'facetable', 'on_earth', 'main', None) kwargs {}
args (20, 'facetable', 'state', 'main', None) kwargs {}
args (20, 'facetable', 'city_id', 'main', None) kwargs {}
args (20, 'facetable', 'neighborhood', 'main', None) kwargs {}
args (20, 'facetable', 'tags', 'main', None) kwargs {}
args (20, 'facetable', 'complex_array', 'main', None) kwargs {}
args (20, 'facetable', 'distinct_some_null', 'main', None) kwargs {}

Those 20 values (where 20 is SQLITE_READ) looked like they were checking permissions for the columns in the order they would be returned!

Then I found a snag:

In [18]: db.execute('select 1 + 1 + (select max(rowid) from facetable)')
args (21, None, None, None, None) kwargs {}
args (31, None, 'max', None, None) kwargs {}
args (20, 'facetable', 'pk', 'main', None) kwargs {}
args (21, None, None, None, None) kwargs {}
args (20, 'facetable', '', None, None) kwargs {}

Once a subselect is involved the order of the 20 checks no longer matches the order in which the columns are returned from the query.

 
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