Follow up, eventually I got it working by using the following; http://fabianpeter.de/cloud/owncloud-migrating-from-sqlite-to-mysql/
Pretty dirty, but it got the job done... took me 6 *hours* to discover this fix, it's untested/alpha as hell and I didn't even write the code. Hopefully this helps others that might come across similar issues in future. I can only argue that it really shouldn't have been this complicated :/ Cal On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 1:40 PM, Richard Hipp <d...@sqlite.org> wrote: > Tnx for email. I'm in a meeting. Reply later. > > On 2/12/15, Cal Leeming <c...@iops.io> wrote: >> Thanks for the quick reply, appreciated. >> >> I've been having a problem where iterdump() is exporting in a format >> which is unsuitable for MySQL, although it previously appeared to be >> corruption (hence the previous comment of seriousness), it does >> actually appear to be documented incompatibility. Tools such as [2] >> don't work with popular libraries such as Django, due to its use of >> pysqlite2 and patching scripts such as [3] also don't seem to work. >> >> It seems the backup features of sqlite3 are not exposed in higher >> level APIs such as Python, and getting data out of a sqlite3 in-memory >> DB in python into a file is proving to be a difficult task, something >> which is arguable a common requirement. (something which I'm still >> trying to do as we speak, and will report back with my eventual fix) >> >> I'm not sure what my current proposal would be, but my first >> suggestion would be either exposing those backup features to the >> higher level APIs. >> >> Also, I'd like to +1 having this project on some sort of social collab >> platform, be it github, bitbucket etc. It would make external >> contributions much easier, as I nearly gave up trying to report this >> issue out of frustration. >> >> Thanks in advance >> >> Cal >> >> [2]: https://github.com/husio/python-sqlite3-backup >> [3]: http://www.redmine.org/attachments/download/6239/sqlite3-to-mysql.py >> >> On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 12:53 PM, Richard Hipp <d...@sqlite.org> wrote: >>> Sorry you had trouble. You can send email directly to me if you want. >>> Or >>> to sqlite-users@sqlite.org wherr it will be held for moderation. >>> >>> -- >>> D. Richard Hipp >>> Sent from phone - Excuse brevity >>> >>> On Feb 12, 2015 7:31 AM, "Cal Leeming" <c...@iops.io> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> Tried to report an issue to sqlite3 mailing list, I got my >>>> confirmation email but it keeps saying password incorrect. >>>> >>>> Not sure if you still have any say over the project, but would +1 ask >>>> for this to be on Github, I've been trying for 30 minutes to report a >>>> rather serious problem with sqlite3 and now giving up because it's too >>>> hard to report. >>>> >>>> Cal >> > > > -- > D. Richard Hipp > d...@sqlite.org _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
