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[Kurt Huhn]

Joshua D Boyd <jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu> wrote:

> 
> I'm looking at http://www.sqlite.org/
> 

Same as I...

> I realize that they say "SQLite *is* the server." right on the front
> page, but I'm pretty sure they only put it that way to make a point.
> 
> For instance, the C/C++ interface offers no choices other than to pass
> the filename to the sqlite_open function, and if there was a server
> somewhere, you should be able to pass it a server name and port number
> rather than just a file name.
> 

Ah, I see.  I setup the sqlite command with xinetd - that's how I got it to
do networky stuff.  It worked, but I wasn't exactly beating on it very hard.

> Further, it looks like it works by locked files rather than row or table
> locking, which would be an insane thing to do ofr a server, but
> perfectly OK for something meant to be used by only one application at a
> time.  Too bad that it doesn't at least offer primitive locking like
> Access, so that multiple applications can read and write one SQLLite
> file at the same time.  However, it appears that as long as applications
> responsibly release their write locks of the file, something could be
> done easily.
> 

I have a faint idea of what that entails, and I agree.

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Kurt
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