id,node_id,number,title,user,state,locked,assignee,milestone,comments,created_at,updated_at,closed_at,author_association,pull_request,body,repo,type,active_lock_reason,performed_via_github_app,reactions,draft,state_reason
1257724585,I_kwDOCGYnMM5K91qp,441,Combining `rows_where()` and `search()` to limit which rows are searched,1448859,closed,0,,,4,2022-06-02T06:01:55Z,2022-06-14T21:57:57Z,2022-06-14T21:54:38Z,NONE,,"What is the right way to limit a full text search query to some rows of a table?

For example, I have a table that contains the following columns: `title`, `content`, `owner` (each row represents a document). The `owner` column is a username. It feels right to store all documents in one table, instead of having one table per owner. In particular because I'd like to full text search all documents, only documents owned by one user and documents owned by a set of users.

I tried to combine `.rows_where(""owner = ?"", ""1234"")` and `.search()` from the `Table` class but I don't think that is meant to work. I discovered `.search_sql()` as a way to generate the FTS SQL statement. By hand I can edit it to add a `AND [original].[owner] = :owner` to the `where` clause. This seems to do what I want.

My two questions:
1. is adding a `AND ...` to the `where` clause actually the right thing to do or should I be doing something else (my SQL skills are low)?
2. is there a built-in to sqlite-utils way to achieve this?

Right now I am thinking I will make my own version of `search_sql()` that generates a query that contains an additional `owner = :owner` for my particular use-case.

Bonus question: is this generally useful/something to add to sqlite-utils or too niche?",140912432,issue,,,"{""url"": ""https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/441/reactions"", ""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,completed
593751293,MDU6SXNzdWU1OTM3NTEyOTM=,97,"Adding a ""recreate"" flag to the `Database` constructor",1448859,closed,0,,,4,2020-04-04T05:41:10Z,2020-04-15T14:29:31Z,2020-04-13T03:52:29Z,NONE,,"I have a [script](https://github.com/betatim/binder-datasette/blob/master/create-db.ipynb) that imports data into a sqlite DB. When I re-run that script I'd like to remove the existing sqlite DB, instead of adding to it. The pragmatic answer is to add the check and file deletion to my script.

However I thought it would be easy and useful for others to add a `recreate=True` flag to `db = sqlite_utils.Database(""binder-launches.db"")`. After taking a look at the code for it I am not so sure any more. This is because the connection string could be a URL (or ""connection string"") like `""file:///tmp/foo.db""`. I don't know what the equivalent of `os.path.exists()` is for a connection string or how to detect that something is a connection string and raise an error ""can't use recreate=True and conn_string at the same time"".

Does anyone have an idea/suggestion where to start investigating?",140912432,issue,,,"{""url"": ""https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/97/reactions"", ""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,completed