Problem:
I want to do this operation
select name from pragma table_info(my_awesome_table)
However, it yields a syntax error. I have the sneaking suspicion this is possible, but it doesn't seem to be documented as usable in the SELECT docs with sqlite.
Pragmas are SQLite-specific extension to SQL, it has a special syntax:
sqlite> create table my_table (a int, b TEXT);
sqlite> .headers ON
sqlite> .mode columns
sqlite> pragma table_info(my_table);
cid name type notnull dflt_value pk
---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ----------
0 a int 0 0
1 b TEXT 0 0
You can not specify columns, and you can not use pragmas in a subquery.