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Extract columns cannot create foreign key relation: sqlite3.OperationalError: table sqlite_master may not be modified #235

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@kristomi

Thanks for what seems like a truly great suite of libraries. I wanted to try out Datasette, but never got more than half way through your YouTube video with the SF tree dataset. Whenever I try to extract a column, I get a sqlite3.OperationalError: table sqlite_master may not be modified error from Python. This snippet reproduces the error on my system, Python 3.9.1 and sqlite-utils 3.5 on an M1 Macbook Pro running in rosetta mode:

curl "https://data.nasa.gov/resource/y77d-th95.json" | \
    sqlite-utils insert meteorites.db meteorites - --pk=id
sqlite-utils extract meteorites.db meteorites  recclass

I have tried googling the problem, but all I've found is that this might be a problem with the sqlite3 database running in defensive mode, but I definitely can't know for sure. Does the problem seem familiar to you?

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