Re: [sqlite] Maximum database size?

2010-03-04 Thread Collin Capano
Hi Roger, Thanks for the explanation. Collin On 3/3/10 11:11 PM, Roger Binns wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Collin Capano wrote: > >> Why does it prefer to use >> /var/tmp or some other temp directory as opposed to just using the >> current directory? Is there

Re: [sqlite] Maximum database size?

2010-03-03 Thread Roger Binns
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Collin Capano wrote: > Why does it prefer to use > /var/tmp or some other temp directory as opposed to just using the > current directory? Is there some performance advantage in doing this? The temp tables are for a particular connection only. If

Re: [sqlite] Maximum database size?

2010-03-03 Thread Collin Capano
Hi all, Thanks so much for the info! The problem does appear to have been due to temp_store_directory. It was set to /var/tmp; on our clusters /var/tmp exits on another disk which only has about 3GB free as opposed to the 3TB I have on the disk that the database lives on. I re-set it the

Re: [sqlite] Maximum database size?

2010-03-03 Thread Jay A. Kreibich
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 12:57:22AM -0500, Collin Capano scratched on the wall: > Hello SQLite users, > > I've been running into some disk I/O errors when doing things such as > vacuuming and/or inserting things into temp tables in a database. Both of those operations require temp space.

Re: [sqlite] Maximum database size?

2010-03-03 Thread Dan Kennedy
On Mar 3, 2010, at 12:57 PM, Collin Capano wrote: > Hello SQLite users, > > I've been running into some disk I/O errors when doing things such as > vacuuming and/or inserting things into temp tables in a database. The > databases that are giving me trouble are quite large: between 29 and > 55GB.

Re: [sqlite] Maximum database size?

2010-03-03 Thread Max Vlasov
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Collin Capano wrote: > The databases in question don't seem to be > corrupt; I can open them on the command line and in python programs > (using pysqlite) and can read triggers from them just fine. It's just > when I try to vacuum and

Re: [sqlite] Maximum database size?

2010-03-03 Thread Simon Slavin
On 3 Mar 2010, at 5:57am, Collin Capano wrote: > I've been running into some disk I/O errors when doing things such as > vacuuming and/or inserting things into temp tables in a database. The > databases that are giving me trouble are quite large: between 29 and > 55GB. However, as large as

[sqlite] Maximum database size?

2010-03-02 Thread Collin Capano
Hello SQLite users, I've been running into some disk I/O errors when doing things such as vacuuming and/or inserting things into temp tables in a database. The databases that are giving me trouble are quite large: between 29 and 55GB. However, as large as that is, I don't think running out of