Hi, thanks a lot.
so, I can see the journal file in my work directory which I own (and in which the db file is placed). still constantly, I have a disk I/O ERROR which I don't understand. the db is only 64M on disk and I have plenty of space. how can I get to the bottom of this ? can it be related not to the indexing, but rather to something bad that happened during the db creation ? please advice Tal >* so, I don't have TMPDIR defined in my env. what is the behaviour of*>* >sqlite in such cases ? is there a default ?* The journal file will be created in the same directory as the database file. For this to work, your application and user must have enough privilages to create a new file in that directory. Simon. On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 1:01 AM, Tal Tabakman <tal.tabak...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi, > > thanks for the reply. > > so, I don't have TMPDIR defined in my env. what is the behaviour of sqlite in > such cases ? is there a default ? > > cheers > > Tal > > On 12/09/2011 04:02 PM, Tal Tabakman wrote: > >* Hi Guys,*>* I have an SQLITE database of 1.5 million rows in a single > >table*>* each raw looks like:*>**>* > >1499999|25|439198507|-1|0|1|44954|24|17|31|9|9|-1|-1|*>**>* now, from the > >sqlite command line interface I am creating an INDEX on a sinGle*>* integer > >column*>**>* CREATE INDEX IND1 ON ENTRIES (snum)*>**>* the result I get > >is:*>**>* Error: disk I/O error*>**>* can you advice how to debug this one ?* > You might be running out of space wherever temporary > tables are stored on your system. > > If you're on unix, try changing environment variable > TMPDIR to point to somewhere you have lots of free disk > space (say three times the size of the eventual index). > > Or (I think) environment variable TMP or TEMP on Windows. > > > _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
