I'm new to the list, so apologies if this has been posted before. I am using sqlite3 3.7.17 on Linux Slackware64 14.1. I use the sqlite3 command every 10 minutes to query several Thunderbird calendar databases. Occasionally, I have a message, "Error: database is locked"; understandable since Thunderbird is occasionally updating its database.
First, is there a way to open a database in readonly mode from the command line? I 've searched the man page and googled, but I find nothing. I've tried opening the database as dbname?mode=ro, but that doesn't work. The C API has such a mode, but apparently not the command line. If the answer to that question is "no", I would like to request that a readonly switch be added to future versions of sqlite. I think this would be generally useful and couldn't be that difficult to implment. Thanks, Mark
