*** 11,20 **** The virtual table mechanism allows an application to publish interfaces that are accessible from SQL statements as if they were tables. ! SQL statements can do anything to a virtual table that they ! can do to a real table (subject to the read-only or write-only ! constraint) except that one cannot DROP a virtual table and ! the virtual table does not appear in the SQLITE_MASTER table. A virtual table might represent an in-memory data structures. Or it might represent a view of data on disk --- 11,19 ---- The virtual table mechanism allows an application to publish interfaces that are accessible from SQL statements as if they were tables. ! SQL statements can in general do anything to a virtual table that they ! can do to a real table, though particular virtual table implementations ! might restrict what actions are allowed on a case by case basis. A virtual table might represent an in-memory data structures. Or it might represent a view of data on disk