Hi,

I'm sure I'm missing something pretty obvious, but I can't for the life of me stop my pysqlite scripts crashing out with a database is locked error. I have two scripts, one to load data into the database, and one to read data out, but both will frequently, and instantly, crash depending on what the other is doing with the database at any given time. I've got the timeout on both scripts set to 30 seconds:

cx = sqlite.connect("database.sql", timeout=30.0)

and think I can see some evidence of the timeouts in that i get what appears to be a timing stamp (e.g 0.12343827e10 1) dumped occasionally in the middle of my curses formatted output screen, but no delay that ever gets remotely near the 30 second timeout, but still one of the other keeps crashing again and again from this. I'm running RHEL5.4 on a 64 bit HS21 IBM blade, and have heard some mention about issues about multi-threading and am not sure if this might be relevant. Packages in use are sqlite-3.3.6-5 and python-sqlite-1.1.7-1.2.1, and upgrading to newer versions outside of RedHat's official provisions is not a great option for me. Possible, but not desirable due to the environment in general.

I have had autocommit=1 on previously on both scripts, but have since disabled on both, and am now cx.commit()ing on the inserting script and not committing on the select script. Ultimately as I only ever have one script actually making any modifications, I don't really see why this locking should ever ever happen...

Any pointers very much appreciated.

Thanks

hi
you can direct your question to stackoverflow or comp.lang.python. There are more Python people/experts there who can answer your question.

I've asked in a few other places, always nice when people come up trumps here though.

i see. I find stackoverflow swarming with intelligent people from everywhere so much so i can be most sure that you will get your answer within 30 mins "

and comp.lang.python which is specialised in Python, so all the Python experts will be there as well.