diff --git a/manifest b/manifest
index cc4e004388..8be6959cd4 100644
--- a/manifest
+++ b/manifest
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-C Remove\sthe\sredundant\smemType\sfield\sfrom\sstruct\sMem.
-D 2014-03-05T11:48:35.825
+C Separate\sthe\scolumn\sNULL\svalue\sconstant\sinto\sa\sseparate\sroutine\sfor\sgreater\ncommonality\swith\sthe\ssessions\sbranch.
+D 2014-03-05T12:47:55.519
 F Makefile.arm-wince-mingw32ce-gcc d6df77f1f48d690bd73162294bbba7f59507c72f
 F Makefile.in 2ef13430cd359f7b361bb863504e227b25cc7f81
 F Makefile.linux-gcc 91d710bdc4998cb015f39edf3cb314ec4f4d7e23
@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ F src/vacuum.c 3728d74919d4fb1356f9e9a13e27773db60b7179
 F src/vdbe.c 8c6fc7bb9f2218c0e43f24d847e596effa8671e2
 F src/vdbe.h d189f92468a17a6f04daeec9df3b767f50557b21
 F src/vdbeInt.h e54fc4f289fce48e81b3371128446033d097733b
-F src/vdbeapi.c a5c48f2b015679ddb7c25ae866abf5e2d6e42857
+F src/vdbeapi.c 77fbd57c0340a7d548a61b666143637fff726e06
 F src/vdbeaux.c 43bee29ac866f7ce6af90c4f084bb22c160b8b70
 F src/vdbeblob.c d939997de046b8fcc607cfee4248f3d33dbcca50
 F src/vdbemem.c 6fc77594c60f6155404f3f8d71bf36d1fdeb4447
@@ -1155,7 +1155,7 @@ F tool/vdbe_profile.tcl 67746953071a9f8f2f668b73fe899074e2c6d8c1
 F tool/warnings-clang.sh f6aa929dc20ef1f856af04a730772f59283631d4
 F tool/warnings.sh d1a6de74685f360ab718efda6265994b99bbea01
 F tool/win/sqlite.vsix 030f3eeaf2cb811a3692ab9c14d021a75ce41fff
-P 378b290da85cadc1acba081322d1f0e8d7694e17 bac2820e13a79d91d0f8938c643134a9d6900327
-R 0b493f27b646031be527e01b67828619
-U dan
-Z 2c30198d39dfe9f58d28fb7d11ffc819
+P 9e8528578966e4f1a16d63333de648fd8cdaf0f2
+R cd61be35c414ec0c232f9ea3f0efe193
+U drh
+Z d8b63809d3f1784ecbab68dab389a740
diff --git a/manifest.uuid b/manifest.uuid
index a974d4a9a0..ad874928a1 100644
--- a/manifest.uuid
+++ b/manifest.uuid
@@ -1 +1 @@
-9e8528578966e4f1a16d63333de648fd8cdaf0f2
\ No newline at end of file
+12cbebb997705e37769460e00a4aaa52c12f305e
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/vdbeapi.c b/src/vdbeapi.c
index 4c9d4870d0..dc11540deb 100644
--- a/src/vdbeapi.c
+++ b/src/vdbeapi.c
@@ -727,6 +727,30 @@ int sqlite3_data_count(sqlite3_stmt *pStmt){
   return pVm->nResColumn;
 }
 
+/*
+** Return a pointer to static memory containing an SQL NULL value.
+*/
+static const Mem *columnNullValue(void){
+  /* Even though the Mem structure contains an element
+  ** of type i64, on certain architectures (x86) with certain compiler
+  ** switches (-Os), gcc may align this Mem object on a 4-byte boundary
+  ** instead of an 8-byte one. This all works fine, except that when
+  ** running with SQLITE_DEBUG defined the SQLite code sometimes assert()s
+  ** that a Mem structure is located on an 8-byte boundary. To prevent
+  ** these assert()s from failing, when building with SQLITE_DEBUG defined
+  ** using gcc, we force nullMem to be 8-byte aligned using the magical
+  ** __attribute__((aligned(8))) macro.  */
+  static const Mem nullMem 
+#if defined(SQLITE_DEBUG) && defined(__GNUC__)
+    __attribute__((aligned(8))) 
+#endif
+    = {0, "", (double)0, {0}, 0, MEM_Null, 0,
+#ifdef SQLITE_DEBUG
+       0, 0,  /* pScopyFrom, pFiller */
+#endif
+       0, 0 };
+  return &nullMem;
+}
 
 /*
 ** Check to see if column iCol of the given statement is valid.  If
@@ -743,32 +767,11 @@ static Mem *columnMem(sqlite3_stmt *pStmt, int i){
     sqlite3_mutex_enter(pVm->db->mutex);
     pOut = &pVm->pResultSet[i];
   }else{
-    /* If the value passed as the second argument is out of range, return
-    ** a pointer to the following static Mem object which contains the
-    ** value SQL NULL. Even though the Mem structure contains an element
-    ** of type i64, on certain architectures (x86) with certain compiler
-    ** switches (-Os), gcc may align this Mem object on a 4-byte boundary
-    ** instead of an 8-byte one. This all works fine, except that when
-    ** running with SQLITE_DEBUG defined the SQLite code sometimes assert()s
-    ** that a Mem structure is located on an 8-byte boundary. To prevent
-    ** these assert()s from failing, when building with SQLITE_DEBUG defined
-    ** using gcc, we force nullMem to be 8-byte aligned using the magical
-    ** __attribute__((aligned(8))) macro.  */
-    static const Mem nullMem 
-#if defined(SQLITE_DEBUG) && defined(__GNUC__)
-      __attribute__((aligned(8))) 
-#endif
-      = {0, "", (double)0, {0}, 0, MEM_Null, 0,
-#ifdef SQLITE_DEBUG
-         0, 0,  /* pScopyFrom, pFiller */
-#endif
-         0, 0 };
-
     if( pVm && ALWAYS(pVm->db) ){
       sqlite3_mutex_enter(pVm->db->mutex);
       sqlite3Error(pVm->db, SQLITE_RANGE, 0);
     }
-    pOut = (Mem*)&nullMem;
+    pOut = (Mem*)columnNullValue();
   }
   return pOut;
 }