From 63847496f14c813a5d80efd5b7de0f1294ffe1e3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Baumann
+Obtain a changeset containing changes to the tables attached to the
+session object passed as the first argument. If successful,
+set *ppChangeset to point to a buffer containing the changeset
+and *pnChangeset to the size of the changeset in bytes before returning
+SQLITE_OK. If an error occurs, set both *ppChangeset and *pnChangeset to
+zero and return an SQLite error code. A changeset consists of zero or more INSERT, UPDATE and/or DELETE changes,
+each representing a change to a single row of an attached table. An INSERT
+change contains the values of each field of a new database row. A DELETE
+contains the original values of each field of a deleted database row. An
+UPDATE change contains the original values of each field of an updated
+database row along with the updated values for each updated non-primary-key
+column. It is not possible for an UPDATE change to represent a change that
+modifies the values of primary key columns. If such a change is made, it
+is represented in a changeset as a DELETE followed by an INSERT. Changes are not recorded for rows that have NULL values stored in one or
+more of their PRIMARY KEY columns. If such a row is inserted or deleted,
+no corresponding change is present in the changesets returned by this
+function. If an existing row with one or more NULL values stored in
+PRIMARY KEY columns is updated so that all PRIMARY KEY columns are non-NULL,
+only an INSERT is appears in the changeset. Similarly, if an existing row
+with non-NULL PRIMARY KEY values is updated so that one or more of its
+PRIMARY KEY columns are set to NULL, the resulting changeset contains a
+DELETE change only. The contents of a changeset may be traversed using an iterator created
+using the sqlite3changeset_start() API. A changeset may be applied to
+a database with a compatible schema using the sqlite3changeset_apply()
+API. Within a changeset generated by this function, all changes related to a
+single table are grouped together. In other words, when iterating through
+a changeset or when applying a changeset to a database, all changes related
+to a single table are processed before moving on to the next table. Tables
+are sorted in the same order in which they were attached (or auto-attached)
+to the sqlite3_session object. The order in which the changes related to
+a single table are stored is undefined. Following a successful call to this function, it is the responsibility of
+the caller to eventually free the buffer that *ppChangeset points to using
+sqlite3_free().
Choose any three.
+Session Module C Interface
Generate A Changeset From A Session Object
int sqlite3session_changeset(
+ sqlite3_session *pSession, /* Session object */
+ int *pnChangeset, /* OUT: Size of buffer at *ppChangeset */
+ void **ppChangeset /* OUT: Buffer containing changeset */
+);
+
Changeset Generation
Once a table has been attached to a session object, the session object +records the primary key values of all new rows inserted into the table. +It also records the original primary key and other column values of any +deleted or updated rows. For each unique primary key value, data is only +recorded once - the first time a row with said primary key is inserted, +updated or deleted in the lifetime of the session.
+ +There is one exception to the previous paragraph: when a row is inserted, +updated or deleted, if one or more of its primary key columns contain a +NULL value, no record of the change is made.
+ +The session object therefore accumulates two types of records - those +that consist of primary key values only (created when the user inserts +a new record) and those that consist of the primary key values and the +original values of other table columns (created when the users deletes +or updates a record).
+ +When this function is called, the requested changeset is created using +both the accumulated records and the current contents of the database +file. Specifically:
+ +
This means, amongst other things, that if a row is inserted and then later +deleted while a session object is active, neither the insert nor the delete +will be present in the changeset. Or if a row is deleted and then later a +row with the same primary key values inserted while a session object is +active, the resulting changeset will contain an UPDATE change instead of +a DELETE and an INSERT.
+ +When a session object is disabled (see the sqlite3session_enable() API), +it does not accumulate records when rows are inserted, updated or deleted. +This may appear to have some counter-intuitive effects if a single row +is written to more than once during a session. For example, if a row +is inserted while a session object is enabled, then later deleted while +the same session object is disabled, no INSERT record will appear in the +changeset, even though the delete took place while the session was disabled. +Or, if one field of a row is updated while a session is disabled, and +another field of the same row is updated while the session is enabled, the +resulting changeset will contain an UPDATE change that updates both fields. +
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