Subhadeep Ghosh wrote:
> I am aware of the functionality which you mentioned. But the reason why
> I ended up coding the feature was because of a very specific requirement.
> My requirement was such that some of my client applications were running
> on disk-less systems where I was not using any kind of network storage.
> But my applications used SQLite. So I coded the below mentioned feature
> such that the database was being stored on the server and when the
> disk-less clients wanted to use them, they fetched the database from the
> server over the network and directly create a database out of the fetched
> data (basically serializing and de-serializing the database).
>
> I am guessing that SQLite does not support such functionality. The
> closest thing would have been to fetch the database over the network,
> store it in a file (which in this case is not possible) and then open the
> database.
>
> I maybe wrong, but if such a feature already exists then I would be more
> than happy to adopt it in my code.
I see.
Firstly, you may be better off using a client/server db, since that
seems to map more naturally into your use-case. But let's forget about
that for the moment.
Had I written your application, I first would have considered dumping
the original database to raw SQL text and reading it into the in-mem
db on the other end. That would be pretty trivial to do, and if it
suits your needs perf-wise, you're golden. This also gives the extra
advantage of having a textual communication format between the master
and the slave, which can be a useful debugging tool.
I would then have considered using a RAM-backed filesystem on the
slave. You can copy the sqlite db as-is to the slave and open it
using normal sqlite api calls. SQLite and your app think the db is
disk-backed because the OS is faking the existence of a disk. Whether
this option works well depends on how easy it is to get a ram-backed fs
up and running on your slave. (In linux this is very easy, not sure
about your deployment oS.)
Eric
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