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