Using STRING instead of TEXT

Using STRING instead of TEXT

In SQLite, any column can store any data type; the declared type for a column is more of a hint as to what the data should be cast to when stored.

There are many ways to store a string. TEXT, VARCHAR, CHARACTER and CLOB are string types, but `STRING` is not. Columns defined as STRING are actually numeric.

If you try to store a value in a numeric column, SQLite will try to cast it to a float or an integer before storing. If it can't, it will just store it as a string.

This can lead to some subtle bugs. For example, when SQLite encounters a string like 1234567e1234, it will parse it as a float, but the result will be out of range for floating point numbers, so Inf will be stored! Similarly, strings that look like integers will lose leading zeroes.

To fix this, you can change your schema to use a TEXT type instead.

Issue id: SQLiteString

https://www.sqlite.org/datatype3.html