On 4/25/16, Mark Foley <mfoley at novatec-inc.com> wrote: > > I wonder, then, why I get a lock error if the database is read-only in the > first > place?
The reader has to get a read lock in order to prevent a concurrent writer from changing content out from under it. (Moving the database to WAL mode allows readers and writers to co-exist.) -- D. Richard Hipp drh at sqlite.org
