Index: test/types3.test
==================================================================
--- test/types3.test
+++ test/types3.test
@@ -19,11 +19,11 @@
 source $testdir/tester.tcl
 
 # A variable with only a string representation comes in as TEXT
 do_test types3-1.1 {
   set V {}
-  append V {}
+  append V x
   concat [tcl_variable_type V] [execsql {SELECT typeof(:V)}]
 } {string text}
 
 # A variable with an integer representation comes in as INTEGER
 do_test types3-1.2 {