[Gambas-user] sqlite full text search i.e. virtual tables

[BB]

On 2/9/23 10:20 pm, Benoît Minisini wrote:
> Le 02/09/2023 à 08:16, BB a écrit :
>> Do we support queries on sqlite virtual tables? I am trying to 
>> implement a full text search on names in 3 tables. sqlite3 has a full 
>> text search (FTS) facility that seems to work quite well after 
>> limited testing* but I can't seem to get access to it via gb.db 
>> conn.Find() or conn.Exec().
>>
>> The info on sqlite FTS can be found here 
>> <https://www.sqlite.org/fts5.html>.
>>
>> Any clues?
>>
>> tia
>>
>> Bruce
>>
>> * I can add, delete and change the base tables and can successfully 
>> "update" the FTS "table". Queries executed outside Gambas work fine. 
>> The search table has two columns, name and type where type is 
>> "person", "building", "place". A simple query on the FTS would be 
>> something like "SELECT * FROM namesrch WHERE name MATCH 'Haricot';"
>>
>
> The Exec() method allows you to run any SQL request, so I don't see 
> why you couldn't use this SQLite extension.
>
> Regards,
>
Aaaargh! 3 hours ago it didn't work, now it does.

It was raising an error that the table ("namesrch") did not exist, hence 
my post. Now, after dinner and a bit of TV, I came back and just before 
closing the project concerned tried it again.


...


Are you some kind of sorcerer or something 😅

bests

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