Fix _decode_default_value to unescape doubled single quotes in string defaults#811
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… defaults SQLite stores string defaults with single quotes doubled (e.g. DEFAULT 'O''Brien' is stored as the literal "'O''Brien'" in sqlite_master). The previous code stripped the outer quotes with value[1:-1] but never converted '' back to ', so default_values returned the raw escaped form instead of the true string value.
Refs simonw#811 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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SQLite stores string defaults with single quotes doubled (e.g.
DEFAULT 'O''Brien'is stored as'O''Brien'insqlite_master). The_decode_default_valuefunction stripped the outer quotes correctly but never unescaped''back to', sotable.default_valuesreturned the raw escaped form instead of the actual string value. The fix adds.replace("''", "'")after stripping the outer quotes.Generated by Claude Code
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