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Vritual Tables Performing SQL Queries

(1) By brianchrz on 2021-06-11 07:54:34 [link]

I would like to use SQLite to do something a little crazy: basically, on insert / update to a table, I would like a trigger to effectively, insert or update a virtual table, and create some sort of large artifact. Like, a PDF report, send off an email, etc., using the contents of the record post insert / update. I can't, for the life of me, figure out how you would use any amount of SQL from within a virtual table function. It doesn't look like you get a `sqlite3` context to query over willy-nilly, and I can't quite find any examples of virtual table functions that demonstrate reading / writing to existing tables.

I'm hoping this is actually quite a trivial thing, and I just can't seem to find it in the docs somewhere. It kind of looks like [this](https://fossil-scm.org/home/file/src/foci.c) might be close, but I can't really tell.

(2.1) By ddevienne on 2021-06-11 08:44:13 edited from 2.0 in reply to 1

See [](https://github.com/0x09/sqlite-statement-vtab/blob/master/statement_vtab.c) from [this post](https://github.com/0x09/sqlite-statement-vtab/blob/master/statement_vtab.c)

Another classic one would be a Pivot VTab, like [this one](https://github.com/jakethaw/pivot_vtab)

(3) By Dan Kennedy (dan) on 2021-06-11 11:39:29 in reply to 1 [link]

An (sqlite3*) handle is passed to the xConnect/xCreate method. You can save a copy in your sqlite3_vtab structure and use it from within any of the other methods.

This is what fts5, rtree and lots more do.

Dan.