Re: [Python-Dev] Supporting native backup facility of SQLite

2016-07-28 Thread Lele Gaifax
Lele Gaifax writes: > Paul Moore writes: > >> If you were interested in doing that, I'd suggest opening a tracker issue >> with a patch. > > Excellent, will do that, thank you for the encouragement! See http://bugs.python.org/issue27645 Thank you in advance for any feedback! ciao, lele. -- n

Re: [Python-Dev] Supporting native backup facility of SQLite

2016-07-11 Thread Lele Gaifax
Paul Moore writes: >> Original questions still hold, though. > > Indeed - I don't see any reason why exposing the backup API through > the sdlib module would be unacceptable (there's plenty of > sqlite-specific functionality in there already, it's not as if there's > a need to limit the module to

Re: [Python-Dev] Supporting native backup facility of SQLite

2016-07-11 Thread Paul Moore
On 11 July 2016 at 16:59, Lele Gaifax wrote: > Paul Moore writes: > >> There's also apsw (https://github.com/rogerbinns/apsw), which appears >> to support backup - http://rogerbinns.github.io/apsw/backup.html. > > Thank you, will have a look: not sure it fits my need, because the application > is

Re: [Python-Dev] Supporting native backup facility of SQLite

2016-07-11 Thread Lele Gaifax
Paul Moore writes: > There's also apsw (https://github.com/rogerbinns/apsw), which appears > to support backup - http://rogerbinns.github.io/apsw/backup.html. Thank you, will have a look: not sure it fits my need, because the application is currently based on Python's sqlite module (thru SQLAlch

Re: [Python-Dev] Supporting native backup facility of SQLite

2016-07-11 Thread Paul Moore
On 11 July 2016 at 10:51, Lele Gaifax wrote: > as I'm going to have a need to use the native `online backup API`__ provided > by SQLite, I looked around for existing solutions and found `sqlitebck`__. > > I somewhat dislike the approach taken by that 3rd party module, and I wonder > if the API sho

[Python-Dev] Supporting native backup facility of SQLite

2016-07-11 Thread Lele Gaifax
Hi all, as I'm going to have a need to use the native `online backup API`__ provided by SQLite, I looked around for existing solutions and found `sqlitebck`__. I somewhat dislike the approach taken by that 3rd party module, and I wonder if the API should/could be exposed by the standard library s