Hi all, Thanks for your comments...much appreciated......
BTW: if I am using SQLIte as a logger, what PRAGMA statement can I use to say FIX the sqlite database size to say "5 MB"? Also, lets say I have a AUTOINCREMENT INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, what will happen when it reaches 5 MB? Will it just keep returning SQLITE_FULL or similar? I guess I am looking for a "round robin queue" here? While I'm on it, if I have an AUTOINCREMENT INTEGER PRIMARY KEY with a LOGGER implementation, and the integer reaches it's limit (even though I am deleting previous records), will the sqlite database assign "un-used primary keys" (previously deleted) to any NEW inserts? Thanks for the help ;-) Lynton On 10/05/2011 12:15, Enrico Thierbach wrote: > On 10.05.2011, at 12:06, Stephan Beal wrote: > >> On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Enrico Thierbach<e...@open-lab.org> wrote: >> >>> I don't think sqlite (or any SQL database, for that matter) is a perfect >>> fit for a logger, because there is a certain amount of write overhead. >>> Why do you think you would want to do this? >>> >> ALL db insertions in a db are, in effect, some form of logging. In embedded >> apps with no stdout/stderr (e.g. WinCE) using sqlite as a logging >> destination can be quite useful (and easy to set up). > Yes and no: logging is an (append-only) write to an already opened file or > network socket, and no indexes need to be updated. While inserting a document > into a database needs to fiddle with internal database structures, which is > less performant than just writing a few bytes to an already handle. > > Of course, constraints on an embedded device are different than, say, on a > Unix server, and logging to a database is easy to set up, especially if the > database is already there :). In other scenarios file system logging > generally wins, and not only performance wise, but because there are plenty > of tools to work with those; unless, of course, there is a specific need to > use a database. > > /eno > > > > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@sqlite.org > http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
