> Le 15 févr. 2017 à 18:44, Clemens Ladisch <clem...@ladisch.de> a écrit :
> 
> Olivier Mascia wrote:
>> A good approach ... is to drive the backup by a single call to 
>> sqlite3_backup_step()
> 
> This is indeed what you should do with WAL.
> 
>> The only downside is that I loose the capability to monitor (or inform users 
>> if needed) of the backup progress.
> 
> That was never the primary purpose of having multiple steps; it was intended 
> to allow
> concurrent read and write accesses (before WAL existed).

Indeed, the reporting was probably not the primary motivation for the stepping, 
anyway reporting progress was obviously considered by authors: 
sqlite3_backup_remaining() is useless except between steps.
:)

Thanks,
-- 
Best Regards, Meilleures salutations, Met vriendelijke groeten,
Olivier Mascia, http://integral.software


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