Question

Two similar queries:

firstQuery = "select * from table_name where column_name = match_value"
secondQuery = "select * from table_name where column_name match match_value"

executing the first one using dbCursor.execute() works fine, but executing the second one throws:

sqlite3.OperationalError: unable to use function MATCH in the requested context

Could someone please explain to me why is that? Thank you.

Answer 1

From the sqlite expression syntax docs:

The MATCH operator is a special syntax for the match() application-defined function. The default match() function implementation raises an exception and is not really useful for anything. But extensions can override the match() function with more helpful logic.