Hi all
I have a 'data integrity' problem with sqlite3 that I have been battling
with for a while. I have not got to the bottom of it yet but I do have some
useful info, so I thought I would post it here in the hope that someone with
some knowledge of the internals of the python sqlite3 module can throw some
light on it.
I am running python 3.4.3 on Windows 7, and I have upgraded sqlite from the
original '3.7.something' to '3.8.6'. I do not change the isolation level
from the default setting.
I have a transaction with a number of steps. One of the later steps raises
an exception, and I execute a rollback. However, some of the earlier steps
are committed to the database. Obviously this is a major problem.
I have added 'set_trace_callback' to see exactly what is going on, and in
the middle of my series of commands I find the following -
COMMIT
BEGIN IMMEDIATE
According to the docs, the sqlite3 module commits transactions implicitly
before a non-DML, non-query statement (i. e. anything other than
SELECT/INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE/REPLACE).
In my traceback I can only see SELECTs and UPDATEs following the implicit
commit, so I do not know what is triggering it. I am trying to reproduce the
problem in a simpler example, but so far without success. My running program
has two connections to the database open, another connection to an in-memory
database, and it is all running under asyncio, so it is quite difficult to
mimic all of this.
I will persevere, but in the meantime, does anyone happen to know under what
other circumstances sqlite3 might issue an implicit commit?
Thanks
Frank Millman
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