> -----Original Message-----
> From: D. Richard Hipp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 6:13 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [sqlite] Re: OK to drop support for legacy file formats?
>
>
> D. Richard Hipp wrote:
> >
> > I am proposing to drop support for this auto-update feature.
> > Beginning with 2.8.12, if you attempt to open a database file
> > built using version 2.5.6 or earlier, the open attempt will
> > fail (with an appropriate error message). You will have to
> > update the database file manually.
> >
>
> What if instead of refusing to open the database at all,
> it opened the database read-only. Would opening older
> databases read-only mitigate any hardships that refusing
> to open older databases might cause?
>
My 2 cents, that sounds like the most user friendly approach, that way if a user has
an old format database BUT for some inexplicable reason they only have the newer
version of sqlite; they could at least use the sqlite terminal monitor to ".dump" it
and re-create it via the usual:
sqlite old.db .dump | sqlite new.db
Chris
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