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Comment:Fix a typo on the quirks.html page.
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User & Date: drh 2018-11-28 10:08:08.734
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2018-11-28
10:21
Further enhancements to the Quirks document. (check-in: 8a0206bb29 user: drh tags: trunk)
10:08
Fix a typo on the quirks.html page. (check-in: dd1def55d8 user: drh tags: trunk)
2018-11-26
18:57
Caution users to have well-defined column names in VIEWs. (check-in: 5a0203cdca user: drh tags: trunk)
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the [PRAGMA foreign_keys] statement.  Or, foreign key enforcement can
be activated at compile-time using the
[-DSQLITE_DEFAULT_FOREIGN_KEYS=1] compile-time option.

<h1>PRIMARY KEYs Can Sometimes Contain NULLs</h1>

<p>
Usually (the exceptions are [INTEGER PRIMARY KEY] tables 
Usually (the exceptions are [INTEGER PRIMARY KEY] tables and
[WITHOUT ROWID] tables) a PRIMARY KEY in an SQLite table is really
the same as a UNIQUE constraint.  Due to an historical oversight,
the column values of such a PRIMARY KEY are allowed to be NULL.
This is a bug, but by the time the problem was discovered there
where so many databases in circulation that depended on the bug that
the decision was made to support the bugging behavior moving forward.
<p>
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