How about performing your backup inside an exlclusive transaction?

Marcus Grimm wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> is there a way to query if the database file is currently locked ?
> 
> Background:
> My application may run for weeks (hopefully) and uses EXCLUSIVE
> transactions in some threads. On a daily basis I would like to copy
> the database file for backup purpose. I assume that this will fail
> when there is an exclusive transaction ongoing. It would be more
> elegant to ask sqlite rather than test against a FileCopy failure.
> 
> I found the "PRAGMA locking_mode" statement, is this the one to use ?
> 
> Thank you
> 
> Marcus
> 
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