I was with the impression that you cannot call VACUUM from within a Transaction. I conclude this by reading the code.
Will this work? GM -----Original Message----- From: Anders Persson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 10:33 AM To: sqlite-users@sqlite.org Subject: Re: [sqlite] Vacuum Command I am new to SQLITE but in some other database vacuum want to have full controll test with Transaction as BEGIN EXCLUSIVE TRANSACTION test VACUUM [tableName] END TRANSACTION test // Anders George Mavroudes skrev: > Sorry for the omission and thanks for the quick response. > > -We are using sqlite 2.8.16 > -In all other cases I can get a human readable message but with this case > the error message is blank > > More info to the Original Question: > > - The VACUUM command returns asynchronously success but later on other > threads return the database error 1. > - Tracing back I find another thread accessing record in a different table > causing this error. > - If I remove the VACUUM command and simply do the DELETE only, the error is > not observed > > Addition to the original Question: > > If I delete all records from a [tableName] and then execute the VACUUM > command, will this temporarily delete the table (causing a SCHEMA_CHANGE) > and then add this table back into the db? > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 10:08 AM > To: George Mavroudes > Subject: Re: [sqlite] Vacuum Command > > GM> hi, > > GM> - I am pretty new to SQLITE and I am having a problem with the > GM> following sequence of commands: > > GM> - DELETE FROM [tableName] > > GM> - VACUUM [tableName] > > > GM> The project I am working on has multiple threads Reading / Writing to > this > GM> table and other tables, and after inserting the VACUUM command to > reclaim > GM> space I get an SQLITE_ERROR 0x00001. > > GM> Any suggestions why I get this error? > > First you could try calling sqlite3_errmsg() to get a "human readable" > error message which might contain useful information. > > Second i'd try without the tablename, i think that's not used any > longer (assuming you're using a 3.x version) > > Eric > > > > > > >
