On Mon, 19 Nov, Richard Hipp wrote:

> Fossil compresses files using zlib (and delta compression if other
> similar files are available) and stores the result as an SQLite
> BLOB.  The maximum size of an SQLite BLOB is 1GiB.  So, unless the
> 4GiB file compresses well, it is not a candidate for being stored in
> an Fossil repository.

As it was a textual log file with *LOTS* of repeating sections, I
assume it would compress very good, so ...

> You might have run into an integer overflow situation rather than an
> oversized BLOB.  You should have gotten a better error message if
> there had been an SQLite failure.

... I rather assume it's this integer overflow rather than the size
itself. But in the end the result is the same: It's not possible to add
this file to fossil, right?

Greetings,
Stefan

-- 
Stefan Bellon
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