Il 2016-04-23 11:05 R Smith ha scritto:

> On 2016/04/23 10:20 AM, Michele Pradella wrote: 
> 
>> I have an In-Memory DB that is written and read from connections of the
>> same process. All good with shared cache, but I found that TableLock
>> occur more often on In-Memory than on disk DB, probably because in
>> memory we can't use WAL.
>> 
>> Anyway I found the PRAGMA read_uncommitted that from documentation seams
>> a way to read without the problem of table lock. The question is about
>> this sentence "This can lead to inconsistent query results if another
>> database connection modifies a table while it is being read".
>> "inconsistent" means just "out of date"? or there can be some other type
>> of inconsistent data?
> 
> It means that you can read a record set, using such a shared cache 
> connection, while a sibling connection (with whom you are sharing) is 
> altering the data, resulting in the possibility that the record set will be 
> inconsistent with both the pre-change and the post-change DB states. To draw 
> a picture, imagine the following scenario:
> 
> Create connections C1 and C2 which shares the cache and at least C2 uses 
> pragma read_uncomitted.
> 
> The following table "t" exists so that:
> ID | Val
> ---|----
> 1 | 10
> 2 | 10
> 3 | 10
> 
> Connection C1 starts updating the DB with:
> UPDATE t SET Val = 20;
> 
> At close after that same moment, C2 starts reading (uncommitted, i.e. 
> non-serialized) the DB with:
> SELECT * FROM t;
> 
> But reading is faster than writing, so the result set might look like this 
> perhaps:
> ID | Val
> ---|----
> 1 | 20
> 2 | 20
> 3 | 10
> 
> which is not consistent with either the DB state before C1 writes, nor after 
> C1 committed.
> 
> So no, "inconsistent" doesn't "just" mean outdated, it truly means 
> non-consistent. This may or may not be a problem to your scenario.
> 
> Perhaps the timeout setting is of more value to you? I do not have experience 
> of in-memory DBs that gets used to the point where table locks become 
> intrusive - but perhaps someone else here have solved the problem and can 
> shed some light.
> 
> Cheers,
> Ryan
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Ok understood thank you. I'll have a look to the timeout settings just
to check it, but in my environment this kind of "inconsistency" it's not
a problem. 

Anyway I think that shared cache in Memory DB give you the ability to
make sqlite realy very fast in SELECT statement, very good feature.


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