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Overview
| Comment: | Further clarification of automatic affinity conversion rules. |
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| Timelines: | family | ancestors | descendants | both | trunk |
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3a3335a61eef722632c31a665b0679a6 |
| User & Date: | drh 2019-10-14 00:26:59 |
Context
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2019-10-16
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| 18:07 | Fix typos in the lemon documentation. check-in: 85bc3983a5 user: drh tags: trunk | |
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2019-10-14
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| 00:26 | Further clarification of automatic affinity conversion rules. check-in: 3a3335a61e user: drh tags: trunk | |
| 00:20 | Clarification of the automatic conversion rules for inserting TEXT into a NUMERIC column. check-in: 9840457b31 user: drh tags: trunk | |
Changes
Changes to pages/datatype3.in.
432 432 433 433 <p>^SQLite may attempt to convert values between the storage classes 434 434 INTEGER, REAL, and/or TEXT before performing a comparison. 435 435 ^Whether or not any conversions are attempted before the comparison takes 436 436 place depends on the type affinity of the operands. 437 437 438 438 <p>To "apply affinity" means to convert an operand to a particular storage 439 -class if and only if the conversion is lossless and reversible. 440 -^(Affinity is applied to operands of a comparison operator prior to 439 +class if and only if the conversion does not lose essential information. 440 +Numeric values can always be converted into TEXT. TEXT values 441 +can be converted into numeric values if the text content is a well-formed 442 +integer or real literal, but not a hexadecimal integer literal. 443 +BLOB values are converted into TEXT values by simply interpreting 444 +the binary BLOB context as a text string in the current database 445 +encoding. 446 + 447 +<p>^(Affinity is applied to operands of a comparison operator prior to 441 448 the comparison according to the following rules in the order shown:)^</p> 442 449 443 450 <ul> 444 451 <li><p>^If one operand has INTEGER, REAL or NUMERIC affinity 445 452 and the other operand has TEXT or BLOB or no affinity 446 453 then NUMERIC affinity is applied to other operand. 447 454