On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 7:17 AM, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com>wrote:
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> > I'm using a few threads that may attempt concurrent writes on the
> > database. There doesn't seem to be any documentation on whether
> > SQLDatabase its thread-safe or not, whereas I just assumed a
> > ContentProvider would be.
>
> I would not necessarily assume ContentProvider is single-threaded (there
> was some exchange between Ms. Hackborn and Mr. Nelissen on that topic on
> one of these lists recently, and I forget their collective conclusion on
> the issue).


ContentProvider is not singlethreaded, but SQLite database access generally
takes an exclusive lock, so a lot of the database work is serialized.

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