Ok, i will probably do that. Thank you.

But i'd like to know. Why doesn't this work without wal? A read only
operation shouldn't block, right?

And regarding the commit failing, does that need a busy timeout handler
too? From documentation i though it would just wait until all readers are
done reading and then write. And that further incoming readers would wait
for those 5 seconds. And i was expecting not to really wait, as the commit
should be pretty quick, right?

I'm puzzled.



On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Richard Hipp <d...@sqlite.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 6:56 AM, Alejandro Martínez <elpeq...@gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > Is that the only way?
> >
> > When i had done that in the past, the wal file grew constantly and i am
> > afraid it could fill the hard disk.
> >
> > That could happen if say... one of the reading processes doesn't
> > properly sqlite3_reset a prepared statement after stepping it. right?
> >
>
> Correct.  The WAL file will grow until a checkpoint resets it.  And a
> checkpoint cannot reset the WAL file while there is a pending transaction.
> So if you have a statement holding a transaction open, the WAL file will
> grow without bound.
>
> The solution there is to not hold read transactions open indefinitely.
> Call sqlite3_reset() when you are done with a statement so that its implied
> read transaction will close.
>
>
> >
> > Thank you for your quick answer.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Richard Hipp <d...@sqlite.org> wrote:
> >
> > > PRAGMA journal_mode=WAL
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