[Qgis-user] GeoPackage deadlocks (Andrea Peri)

[Jonathan Moules]

(A little late).

TL;DR: at least for QGIS, is - never multi-user edit 
SQLite/SpatiaLite/GeoPackages on network file systems.

SQLite, (and therefore SpatiaLite and GeoPackage) has quite a few 
caveats when it comes to multiple users trying to edit it at once.

https://www2.sqlite.org/howtocorrupt.html

(my bold)

"SQLite depends on the underlying filesystem to do locking as the 
documentation says it will. But some filesystems contain bugs in their 
locking logic such that the locks do not always behave as advertised. 
*This is especially true of network filesystems and NFS in particular.* 
If SQLite is used on a filesystem where the locking primitives contain 
bugs, and if two or more threads or processes try to access the same 
database at the same time, then database corruption might result."

And there's also:

https://www.sqlite.org/whentouse.html

Put simply (Note: I'm not an expert): It's fine to edit SQLite databases 
if they're not on a network file system with as many users as you want, 
or if they are on a network and you can guarantee only one process is 
going to write. However if multiple people/processes want to write to a 
network file system, you'll need a piece of middleware to manage the 
process, otherwise there's a good chance of corruption as Paul is seeing.

It may also be that QGIS is doing some of the other things on the "how 
to corrupt" page too. I imagine it will only get worse if you use 
multiple different software packages to edit simultaneously.

Cheers,

Jonathan

On 2019-09-27 09:50, Tobias Wendorff wrote:
>> Am 27.09.2019 um 10:24 schrieb Andrea Peri <aperi2007 at gmail.com>:
>>
>> Have you tried to use spatialite instead of geopackage. ?
> Why not plain SQLite? Nobody needs and uses the spatial functions of Spatialite, they are even not part of bloatware GPKG (sorry, the created db-files are huge without any compression).
>
> The only reason is indexing and this could be forked off GPGK and Spatialite.
>
> To the topic: I think, it‘s always a bad idea to let multiple users work on a single SQLite-based database. It hasn‘t been created for this reason.
>
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