On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Philip Bennefall <phi...@blastbay.com> wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Petite Abeille" > On Jun 5, 2013, at 9:10 PM, Philip Bennefall <phi...@blastbay.com> wrote: >> Yes, I have seen the backup API. But I would like to avoid the disk file >> entirely and just serialize to and from memory. > Lateral thinking… write your db to tmpfs… > > Doesn't that still create a file, just a temporary one?
Yes. It is a RAM disk fs however AFAIK, i.e. in memory, thus matching the constraints given so far. > I need the > serialized content in a char* or similar so I can memcpy it etc, and then Ok, that is not something even tmpfs provides. > feed it back to SqLite at a later time. I guess I could make a toy vfs that > uses a malloc:ed chunk that pretends to be the disk drive, and backup > to/from that to a regular in-memory database. Thoughts? That might be workable. Take me with a heap of salt here, as I have not done anything with sqlite's vfs API whatsoever so far. -- Andreas Kupries Senior Tcl Developer Code to Cloud: Smarter, Safer, Faster™ F: 778.786.1133 andre...@activestate.com http://www.activestate.com Learn about Stackato for Private PaaS: http://www.activestate.com/stackato Tcl'2013, Sep 23-27, New Orleans, LA, USA @ http://www.tcl.tk/community/tcl2013/ EuroTcl'2013, July 6-7, Munich, GER _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
