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1421081939 https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/524#issuecomment-1421081939 https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/524 IC_kwDOCGYnMM5Us_1T cldellow 193185 2023-02-07T16:42:25Z 2023-02-07T16:43:42Z NONE

Ha, yes, I might end up making something very niche. That's OK.

I'm building a UI for Datasette that lets users make schema changes, so it's important to me that the tool work in a non-surprising way -- if you ask for a column of type X, you should get type X. If the column or table previously had CHECK constraints, they shouldn't be silently removed. And so on. I had hoped that I could just lean on sqlite-utils, but I think it's a little too surprising.

 
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1421033725 https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/524#issuecomment-1421033725 https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/524 IC_kwDOCGYnMM5Us0D9 cldellow 193185 2023-02-07T16:12:13Z 2023-02-07T16:12:13Z NONE

I think the bigger issue is that sqlite-utils mixes mechanism (it implements the 12-step way to alter SQLite tables) and policy (it has an opinionated stance on what column types should be used).

That might be a design choice to make it accessible to users by providing a reasonable set of defaults, but it doesn't quite fit my use case.

It might make sense to extract a separate library that provides just the mechanisms, and then sqlite-utils would sit on top of that library with its opinionated set of policies.

That would be a very big change, though.

I might take a stab at extracting the library, but just for the table schema migration piece, not all the other features that sqlite-utils supports. I wouldn't expect sqlite-utils to depend on it.

Part of my motivation is that I want to provide some other abilities, too, like support for CHECK constraints. I see that the issue in this repo (https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/358) proposes a bunch of short-hand constraints, which I wouldn't want to accidentally expose to people -- I want a layer that is a 1:1 mapping to SQLite.

 
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1420992261 https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/524#issuecomment-1420992261 https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/524 IC_kwDOCGYnMM5Usp8F cldellow 193185 2023-02-07T15:45:58Z 2023-02-07T15:45:58Z NONE

I'd support that, but I'm not the author of this library.

One challenge is that would be a breaking change. Do you see a way to enable it without affecting existing users or bumping the major version number?

 
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1420809773 https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/524#issuecomment-1420809773 https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/524 IC_kwDOCGYnMM5Ur9Yt cldellow 193185 2023-02-07T13:53:01Z 2023-02-07T13:53:01Z NONE

Ah, it looks like that is controlled by this dict: https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/blob/main/sqlite_utils/db.py#L178

I suspect you could overwrite the datetime entry to achieve what you want

 
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