When a TEXT column is transformed to INTEGER, FLOAT, or REAL and a row
contains an empty string, the empty string is now converted to NULL during
the INSERT...SELECT copy, matching the expected behavior described in #488.
Fixes#488
> Add a test that covers what happens if you run transform against a table with ON CASCADE DELETE for one of its foreign keys - those records should not be deleted during the transform even though the table is dropped as part of that procedure
* Fix transform() corrupting TRUE/FALSE/NULL column defaults
quote_default_value() passed keyword-literal defaults (TRUE, FALSE, NULL)
through self.quote(), wrapping them in quotes. So transform() rebuilt a
column declared "INTEGER DEFAULT TRUE" as "INTEGER DEFAULT 'TRUE'", and a
later default insert stored the text 'TRUE' instead of the integer 1
(likewise 'FALSE' for 0 and 'NULL' for null) - silent value corruption.
Return these keyword literals unquoted, as already done for the
CURRENT_TIME/DATE/TIMESTAMP literals.
PR #764
* Recreate indexes when calling transform when possible and raise an error when they cannot be retained automatically
* Docs for sqlite_utils.db.TransformError
Co-authored-by: Simon Willison <swillison@gmail.com>
Closes#577
This should solve all sorts of problems seen by users of platforms that throw errors on writable_schema.
Also added `add_foreign_keys=` and `foreign_keys=` parameters to `table.transform()`.
