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| https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/524#issuecomment-1421033725 | https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/524 | 1421033725 | IC_kwDOCGYnMM5Us0D9 | 193185 | 2023-02-07T16:12:13Z | 2023-02-07T16:12:13Z | NONE | I think the bigger issue is that `sqlite-utils` mixes mechanism (it implements the [12-step way to alter SQLite tables](https://www.sqlite.org/lang_altertable.html#otheralter)) and policy (it has an opinionated stance on what column types should be used). That might be a design choice to make it accessible to users by providing a reasonable set of defaults, but it doesn't quite fit my use case. It might make sense to extract a separate library that provides just the mechanisms, and then `sqlite-utils` would sit on top of that library with its opinionated set of policies. That would be a very big change, though. I might take a stab at extracting the library, but just for the table schema migration piece, not all the other features that `sqlite-utils` supports. I wouldn't expect `sqlite-utils` to depend on it. Part of my motivation is that I want to provide some other abilities, too, like support for CHECK constraints. I see that the issue in this repo (https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/358) proposes a bunch of short-hand constraints, which I wouldn't want to accidentally expose to people -- I want a layer that is a 1:1 mapping to SQLite. | {"total_count": 0, "+1": 0, "-1": 0, "laugh": 0, "hooray": 0, "confused": 0, "heart": 0, "rocket": 0, "eyes": 0} | 1572766460 |