Question

Is there a way to create an FTS table in SQLite that is pre-populated with data from a SELECT query?

I know it’s possible to create a regular table that is prepopulated with data from a SELECT:
CREATE TABLE foo AS SELECT ref_id, name FROM other_table

And we can create an FTS table like so:
CREATE VIRTUAL TABLE bar USING FTS3(ref_id, name)

The point of doing this is to update my app’s SQLite database schema while avoiding reading in all of the data from other_table. I’m really hoping there’s some way to let SQLite do all the heavy lifting here (which is what it’s really good at!).

Answer 1

I’m not sure if you can do it in one statement, but you can do it in two… after your CREATE VIRTUAL TABLE statement, you can do: INSERT INTO bar SELECT * FROM other_table