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This folder contains extensions and utility programs intended to analyze
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live database files, detect problems, and possibly fix them.
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As SQLite is being used on larger and larger databases, database sizes
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are growing into the terabyte range. At that size, hardware malfunctions
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and/or cosmic rays will occasionally corrupt a database file. Detecting
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problems and fixing errors a terabyte-sized databases can take hours or days,
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and it is undesirable to take applications that depend on the databases
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off-line for such a long time.
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The utilities in the folder are intended to provide mechanisms for
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detecting and fixing problems in large databases while those databases
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are in active use.
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The utilities and extensions in this folder are experimental and under
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active development at the time of this writing (2017-10-12). If and when
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they stabilize, this README will be updated to reflect that fact.
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