[GRASS-dev] SQLite driver problem

Hamish hamish_b at yahoo.com
Tue Dec 14 18:02:13 EST 2010


Moritz wrote:
> > s/db.execute/db.select

Markus wrote:
> Cool.
> 
> But I thought that both did essentially the same job?

nope.

> Apparently not... I wonder if we could trap "SELECT" in
> db.execute and point the user to db.select.
> ?

I recall that Radim gave a good explanation about why they had
to be separated; probably to be found in the ML archives near to
the time when this was added to the db.execute man page:
"""
NOTES
       db.execute only executes SQL statements and does not return any  data.  If  you  need
       data returned from the database, use db.select.
"""


Hamish



      


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