Raw write statements previously opened an implicit transaction that
stayed open until something committed it - the write was visible on
the same connection, making it look saved, but was silently rolled
back when the connection closed. execute() now commits any implicit
transaction it opens, so raw writes behave like every other write
in the library: committed as soon as they run, unless an explicit
transaction (db.begin() or db.atomic()) is open, in which case they
join it.
Row-returning writes such as INSERT ... RETURNING via db.query()
commit once their rows have been iterated. atomic(), commit() and
rollback() now issue literal COMMIT/ROLLBACK statements, which have
identical semantics in every sqlite3 connection mode. The CLI bulk
command uses db.atomic() instead of 'with db.conn:'.
This simplifies the transaction contract to: everything commits
immediately unless you explicitly opened a transaction. Docs
updated throughout; changelog and upgrading guide cover the
breaking change for code that relied on rolling back uncommitted
execute() writes.
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Connections created with sqlite3.connect(autocommit=True) make
commit() a documented no-op, and autocommit=False connections are
permanently inside a transaction - in both modes every write made
by this library appeared to work in-process but was silently
discarded when the connection closed. Database() now raises
TransactionError for these connections instead of losing data.
Tests are skipped on Python versions before 3.12, where the
autocommit parameter does not exist.
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A dedicated sqlite_utils.db.TransactionError exception is clearer
to catch than a generic RuntimeError, and gives future
transaction-state guards a home.
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Manual transaction control previously required mixing raw
db.execute("begin") strings with methods on db.conn. These thin
wrappers give the documentation and callers a single consistent
idiom. Docs updated to use them throughout.
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The method existed only to raise NotImplementedError, since
full-text search is not supported for views, and it showed up in
the generated API reference as a documented View method. Calling
enable_fts() on a View now raises AttributeError like any other
missing method. The sqlite-utils enable-fts command uses db.table()
and shows a clean error when pointed at a view instead of a
traceback.
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User-facing argument validation in db.py previously used bare
assert statements, which vanish entirely under python -O and raise
AssertionError - an exception type callers should not have to
catch for input validation. Fifteen validation sites now raise
ValueError with the same messages. Internal invariants (an
unreachable branch and a post-update rowcount check) remain
asserts.
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- insert/upsert into a name that is actually a view now shows a
clean error instead of a traceback
- db.view() on a name that is a table now says so in its error
- Database.__getitem__ docstring documents that views are returned
for view names; hash_id docstring corrected (it is a column name,
not a boolean)
- Registering two migrations with the same name in one set now
raises ValueError at registration time instead of executing both
and failing with IntegrityError at apply time
- build-system requires setuptools>=77, needed for the PEP 639
license expression
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Changing the journal mode assigns conn.isolation_level, which
commits any open transaction as a side effect - silently breaking
the rollback guarantee of atomic() blocks and of user-managed
transactions. Both methods now raise RuntimeError if a transaction
is open. Calling them when the database is already in the requested
mode remains a no-op.
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A record missing a primary key value - or with None for one - can
never match an existing row, because a NULL primary key never
satisfies ON CONFLICT. Such records were previously inserted as
brand new rows (silently, for multi-record upsert_all calls) or
triggered a KeyError after the insert had already happened. Both
cases, including upserting an empty record, now raise
PrimaryKeyRequired before any SQL is executed.
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Both ran their INSERT INTO fts(fts) statements via a bare execute()
with no commit, leaving the connection inside an open implicit
transaction - the FTS operation and all subsequent writes were then
silently rolled back when the connection closed. Both are now
wrapped in db.atomic(), matching delete_where() and the other
write operations.
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Previously query() was a generator function, so nothing - including
the SQL itself - ran until the result was first iterated. A write
statement passed to query() silently did nothing, and SQL errors
surfaced far from the call site. The SQL now executes as soon as
query() is called, while rows are still fetched lazily during
iteration.
Statements that return no rows now raise a ValueError directing
callers to execute() instead. As a side effect, statements like
INSERT ... RETURNING now work naturally with query().
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Table.delete_where() ran its DELETE via a bare execute() with no
commit, unlike Table.delete() which wraps in db.atomic(). The
connection was left with an open implicit transaction, so the
deletion (and all subsequent writes, including later atomic()
blocks which switched to savepoint mode) was silently rolled back
when the connection closed.
Wrap the DELETE in db.atomic() and remove the now-unnecessary
atomic() wrapper from the delete_where documentation example.
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* fix: defer plugin entrypoint loading until runtime
Fixessimonw/sqlite-utils#713
* Lazy-load plugins when listing them
Keep plugin entrypoints from loading at module import time, but preserve the existing behavior of get_plugins() by loading entrypoints the first time plugins are listed outside tests.
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* Add comprehensive type annotations
- mypy.ini: expanded configuration with module-specific settings
- hookspecs.py: type annotations for hook functions
- plugins.py: typed get_plugins() return value
- recipes.py: full type annotations for parsedate, parsedatetime, jsonsplit
- utils.py: extensive type annotations including Row type alias,
TypeTracker, ValueTracker, and all utility functions
- db.py: type annotations for Database methods (__exit__,
ensure_autocommit_off, tracer, register_function, etc.) and
Queryable class methods
- tests/test_docs.py: updated to match new signature display format
* Fix type errors caught by ty check
- Add type: ignore comments for external library type stub limitations
(csv.reader, click.progressbar, IOBase.name, Callable.__name__)
- Change Iterable to Sequence for SQL where_args parameters
- Use db.table() instead of db[name] for proper Table return type
- Fix rebuild_fts return type from None to Table
- Update test_tracer to expect fewer queries (optimization side effect)
* Fix mypy type errors
- Add type: ignore comments for runtime-valid patterns mypy can't verify
- Fix new_column_types annotation to Dict[str, Set[type]]
- Add type: ignore for Default sentinel values passed to create_table
* mypy skip tests directory
* Fix CI: exclude typing imports from recipe docs, skip mypy on tests
- Add Callable and Optional to exclusion list in _generate_convert_help()
- Regenerate docs/cli-reference.rst with cog
- Add [mypy-tests.*] ignore_errors = True to skip test type errors
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* Fix type warning for pipe.stdout possibly being None
Add conditional check before calling .read() on pipe.stdout since
Popen can return None for stdout.
* Use ctx.meta instead of dynamic attribute for database cleanup
Click's Context.meta dictionary is the proper way to store arbitrary
data on the context object, avoiding type checker warnings about
dynamic attribute assignment.
* Add assert for tables.callback before calling
Click's callback attribute is typed as Optional[Callable], so add
assert to satisfy type checker that it's not None.
* Fix type errors in cli.py and db.py
- Add type annotation for Database.conn to fix context manager errors
- Convert exception objects to str() when raising ClickException
- Handle None return from find_spatialite() with proper error message
* Fix remaining type errors in cli.py
- Add typing import and type annotations for dict kwargs
- Use db.table() instead of db[] for extract command
- Fix missing str() conversion for exception
* Fix type errors in db.py
- Add type annotation for Database.conn
- Add type: ignore for optional sqlite_dump import
- Update execute/query parameter types to Sequence|Dict for sqlite3 compatibility
- Use getattr for fn.__name__ access to handle callables without __name__
- Handle None return from find_spatialite() with OSError
- Fix pk_values assignment to use local variable
* Add type: ignore for optional pysqlite3 and sqlean imports
These are alternative sqlite3 implementations that may not be installed.
* Fix type errors in tests and plugins
- Add type: ignore for monkey-patching Database.__init__ in conftest
- Fix CLI test to pass string "2" instead of integer to Click invoke
- Add type: ignore for optional sqlean import
- Fix add_geometry_column test to use "XY" instead of integer 2
- Add type: ignore for click.Context as context manager
- Add type: ignore for enable_fts test that intentionally omits argument
- Add type: ignore for sys._called_from_test dynamic attribute
- Fix rows_from_file test type error for intentional wrong argument
- Handle None from pm.get_hookcallers in plugins.py
* Use db.table() instead of db[] for Table-specific operations
Changes db[table] to db.table(table) in CLI commands where we know
we're working with tables, not views. This resolves most of the
Table | View disambiguation type warnings since db.table() returns
Table directly rather than Table | View.
* Fix remaining type warnings in sqlite_utils package
- Add assert for sniff_buffer not being None
- Handle cursor.fetchone() potentially returning None
- Use db.table() for counts_table and index_foreign_keys
- Add type: ignore for cursor union type in raw mode
* Ran Black
* Run ty in CI
* ty check sqlite_utils
* Skip running ty on Windows
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When configuration parameters like pk, foreign_keys, not_null, etc.
are passed to Table.create(), they are now stored in self._defaults
so that subsequent operations on the same Table instance (like insert,
upsert) will use those settings automatically.
Previously, calling db["table"].insert({...}, pk="id") would create
the table correctly but subsequent calls to insert() or upsert() on
the same table object would not know about the pk setting, causing
issues like upsert() failing with "requires a pk" error.
Closes#655🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)
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* Add `include_rank` parameter to `Table.search`
* Test for .search(include_rank)
* Docs for table.search(include_rank)
https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/pull/628
Refs #480
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* Recreate indexes when calling transform when possible and raise an error when they cannot be retained automatically
* Docs for sqlite_utils.db.TransformError
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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()`.
