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 1856075668,I_kwDOCGYnMM5uoXeU,586,.transform() fails to drop column if table is part of a view,9599,open,0,,,3,2023-08-18T05:25:22Z,2023-08-18T06:13:47Z,,OWNER,,"I got this error trying to drop a column from a table that was part of a SQL view: > error in view plugins: no such table: main.pypi_releases Upon further investigation I found that this pattern seemed to fix it: ```python def transform_the_table(conn): # Run this in a transaction: with conn: # We have to read all the views first, because we need to drop and recreate them db = sqlite_utils.Database(conn) views = {v.name: v.schema for v in db.views if table.lower() in v.schema.lower()} for view in views.keys(): db[view].drop() db[table].transform( types=types, rename=rename, drop=drop, column_order=[p[0] for p in order_pairs], ) # Now recreate the views for name, schema in views.items(): db.create_view(name, schema) ``` So grab a copy of any view that might reference this table, start a transaction, drop those views, run the transform, recreate the views again. > I wonder if this should become an option in `sqlite-utils`? Maybe a `recreate_views=True` argument for `table.tranform(...)`? Should it be opt-in or opt-out? _Originally posted by @simonw in https://github.com/simonw/datasette-edit-schema/issues/35#issuecomment-1683370548_ ",140912432,issue,,,"{""url"": ""https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/586/reactions"", ""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",, 1855894222,I_kwDOCGYnMM5unrLO,585,CLI equivalents to `transform(add_foreign_keys=)`,9599,closed,0,,,7,2023-08-18T01:07:15Z,2023-08-18T01:51:16Z,2023-08-18T01:51:15Z,OWNER,,"The new options added in: - #577 Deserve consideration in the CLI as well. https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/blob/d2bcdc00c6ecc01a6e8135e775ffdb87572b802b/sqlite_utils/db.py#L1706-L1708",140912432,issue,,,"{""url"": ""https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/585/reactions"", ""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,completed