Is there a way to get the constraints of a table in SQLite?

22
votes

The command pragma table_info('tablename') lists the columns information and pragma foreign_key_list('tablename') the foreign keys. How can I display other constraints (check, unique) of a table? Only parsing the field "sql" of the table "sqlite_master"?

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sqlitelistconstraintspragma
There's also "pragma index_list('tablename')" See sqlite.org/pragma.html#pragma_index_list – Nabab
@Nabab you should really consider adding that as an answer – Timo Huovinen

2 Answers

16
votes

I think the only way is to do this is the way you suggested, parse the sql column of the sqlite_master database.

Python code to do this:

import sqlite3

con = sqlite3.connect("example.sqlite3")
cur = con.cursor()
cur.execute("select sql from sqlite_master where type='table' and name='example_table'")
schema = cur.fetchone()
con.close()

entries = [ tmp.strip() for tmp in schema[0].splitlines() if tmp.find("constraint")>=0 or tmp.find("unique")>=0 ]
for i in entries: print(i)
6
votes

There's also pragma index_list('tablename')

See http://sqlite.org/pragma.html#pragma_index_list