On 2 Oct 2009, at 5:20pm, Ned Fleming wrote: > Is it possible to dump an in-memory sqlite database (or table?) to a > file from within Tcl?
Not easily. MySQL has a pseudo-command which does what .dump does: returns a long piece of text with all the commands needed to reproduce the table. If I suggest adding this as a PRAGMA people will scream 'bloat'. In SQLite it's easy to find the command needed to create the TABLE and INDEXes, but what's hard is devising a short way to recreate the records. > I have tried the following (and variations) -- but no go, kokomo. > ($fileOut3 is a handle to a command-line file name.) > > exec sqlite3 dump dbFireData $fileOut3 From a shell: echo '.dump' | sqlite3 mydb.sql > mydb.dump echo '.dump' | sqlite3 mydb.sql | gzip -c > mydb.dump.gz I don't know enough about Tcl to know if you can do piping and routing in its 'exec' commands. Simon. _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
