[OSGeo-Discuss] SQLite databases locked

[Jonathan Moules]

It turns out there's a MapGuide list - you may find it useful to ask there:

https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapguide-users


On 2018-09-25 18:30, Jonathan Moules wrote:
>
> Hi Meinrad,
>
> I don't know anything about MapGuide, but I know a little about 
> SQLite, so in lieu of anyone else answering...
>
> A locked SQLite database is like a connection to a regular 
> (PostGIS/Oracle) database - the application will usually keep the file 
> locked open if it's going to be reading/writing from the database 
> because connecting to the SQLite database is relatively expensive 
> (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3747232/how-expensive-sqlite3-connect-and-close-in-sqlite). 
> So "prevention" of this locking is unlikely to be desirable.
>
> Now if MapGuide has a way of "disconnecting" a layer, that's a 
> question for someone who knows MapGuide.
>
> (Un-relatedly if there's anyone from OSGeo reading this - The MapGuide 
> website seems very outdated (10 year old documentation!) and has a lot 
> of dead OSGeo links, i.e. the links in "OSGeo Community" - 
> https://mapguide.osgeo.org/)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jonathan
>
>
> On 2018-09-24 17:03, mwk5001 at gmx.ch wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I'm using SQLite FDO and have the problem that the databases get 
>> locked by MapGuide Open Source. If I want to replace a database, I 
>> need to restart the MapGuide service first.
>> Is there a setting to prevent this? Or a command to instruct MapGuide 
>> to release the lock on a specific database? How do you handle this?
>> Thank you and best regards,
>> Meinrad
>>
>>
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