fix: ALTER COLUMN from NUMERIC to TEXT causes corruption from SQLite's POV#5377
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…s POV #3706 When ALTER TABLE ALTER COLUMN changes a column's type affinity (e.g. NUMERIC to TEXT), rewrite existing table data so stored values conform to the new affinity. Previously only the schema metadata was updated, leaving numeric values in a column now declared as TEXT. SQLite's integrity_check would then report corruption. The fix uses existing UPDATE translation paths to update all rows in the table so that the column uses the new affinity in both the table and all indexes. Closes #3706 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <[email protected]>
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When ALTER TABLE ALTER COLUMN changes a column's type affinity (e.g. NUMERIC to TEXT), rewrite existing table data so stored values conform to the new affinity. Previously only the schema metadata was updated, leaving numeric values in a column now declared as TEXT. SQLite's integrity_check would then report corruption.
The fix uses existing UPDATE translation paths to update all rows in the
table so that the column uses the new affinity in both the table and all
indexes.
Closes #3706