On 02/25/2016 09:53 AM, sanhua.zh wrote: > So can this be understood as, if I run my code in WAL, I can invoke busy > handler even it in TRAN_READ?
No. The busy-handler is not invoked when trying to upgrade from a read to a write transaction. Regardless of journal mode. Dan. > > > ???? > ???:Dan Kennedydanielk1977 at gmail.com > ???:sqlite-userssqlite-users at mailinglists.sqlite.org > ????:2016?2?24?(??)?23:52 > ??:Re: [sqlite] Why skip invoking busy handler > whilepBt-inTransaction!=TRANS_NONE > > > On 02/24/2016 08:32 PM, sanhua.zh wrote: In the source code of SQLite, > btree.c, sqlite3BtreeBeginTrans function, The code do { /* Call > lockBtree() until either pBt-pPage1 is populated or ** lockBtree() returns > something other than SQLITE_OK. lockBtree() ** may return SQLITE_OK but > leave pBt-pPage1 set to 0 if after ** reading page 1 it discovers that the > page-size of the database ** file is not pBt-pageSize. In this case > lockBtree() will update ** pBt-pageSize to the page-size of the file on > disk. */ while( pBt-pPage1==0 SQLITE_OK==(rc = lockBtree(pBt)) ); if( > rc==SQLITE_OK wrflag ){ if( (pBt-btsFlags BTS_READ_ONLY)!=0 ){ rc = > SQLITE_READONLY; }else{ rc = > sqlite3PagerBegin(pBt-pPager,wrflag1,sqlite3TempInMemory(p-db)); if( > rc==SQLITE_OK ){ rc = newDatabase(pBt); } } } if( rc!=SQLITE_OK ){ > unlockBtreeIfUnused(pBt); } }while( (rc0xFF)==SQLITE_BUSY > pBt-inTransaction==TRANS_NONE btreeInvokeBusyHandler(pBt) ); You can > see pBt-inTransaction==TRANS_NONE is one of the condition that invoke busy > handler. There is a simple way to simulate a situation that does not invoke > busy handler: 1. begin a transaction without ?IMMEDIATE? and ?EXCLUSIVE? 2. > run a read operation, like ?SELECT?. This will let pBt-inTransaction be > TRANS_READ 3. run a write operation, which will invoke > sqlite3BtreeBeginTrans again. And if it becomes SQLITE_BUSY, then > btreeInvokeBusyHandler will be skiped and no retry will happen. So it?s > the question I confused. Why SQLite skip invoking busy handler while it's in > TRANS (either read or write) ? Assuming you're not using wal-mode, it's > because the two processes will be waiting for each other. The transaction > opened in step 1 cannot be committed until the read-only transaction started > in step 2 has ended. So if you did invoke the busy-handler in step 3, the two > processes would each be waiting for the other to give up. Not much point to > that. In wal-mode it's a little different. The transaction opened in step 1 > could be committed, but attempting to open the write-transaction in step 3 > following that would fail with SQLITE_BUSY_SNAPSHOT. Dan. > _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users at mailinglists.sqlite.org > http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users at mailinglists.sqlite.org > http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users at mailinglists.sqlite.org > http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users