[sqlite] WAL mode enhancement suggestion

2010-10-29 Thread Bob Smith
About a week ago, I posted this inside a response on another thread. It may have gotten lost in the mix. Curious what folks think. Considering things like bulk deletes (and updates) potentially really growing a WAL file to be quite large along with having a system that is constantly running and

[sqlite] WAL file growth concern

2010-10-25 Thread Bob Smith
On Sat Oct 23 20:57:56 GMT 2010, H. Phil Duby wrote: > Give the described conditions, I do not think you need to worry about the > WAL file growing without bound. I think that each increase should be > smaller than the previous one, and will stop growing all together [for your > stress test]

[sqlite] WAL file growth concern

2010-10-23 Thread Bob Smith
On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 5:56 AM, Richard Hipp wrote: > > Is that what you are seeing? > > Which filesystem are you using? > > Thanks Richard, this does seem to be what I am seeing. I am definitely seeingĀ  more writes during the subsequent cycles and an explanation that this is likely due to the

[sqlite] WAL file growth concern

2010-10-22 Thread Bob Smith
I have been able to do some more investigation here. What I was seeing originally made me suspicious that a writer was skipping over parts of the WAL file during the time that a checkpoint is unable to proceed due to a reader. After further investigation, however, I have determined that this is

[sqlite] WAL file growth concern

2010-10-21 Thread Bob Smith
> Are you *sure* you aren't accidentally holding a read transaction open > somewhere? > Do you have any other clues on how we can isolate the problem? A test case > that will we can run here, perhaps? A am pretty certain that I am not accidentally holding a read transaction open. I have my

[sqlite] WAL file growth concern

2010-10-21 Thread Bob Smith
to when my writer process can periodically close its database connection. Does it sound like I have uncovered a concern here? Thanks in advance, Bob Smith ___ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users