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Re: SQLite temporary path creation broken in latest stable release


Greetings, Warren Young!

> On 6/9/2013 19:26, Daniel Colascione wrote:
>> which I haven't been able to test

> You should.  One of the changes is to prefer creating temporary tables 
> in memory instead of on disk, which should bypass the problem.

>> "/var/tmp/etilqs_z28HceqmzVr3ZO1\\etilqs_rnPCuceSOgjfeTd".

> This bug is already under discussion on the SQLite mailing list:

>         http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.sqlite.general/81718

> None of the SQLite core developers have responded to my charge that this 
> looks like a bug in SQLite.  It shouldn't be generating temporary file 
> names with backslashes in them for Cygwin builds, since it knows such 
> paths go through the Cygwin DLL, which sometimes has trouble doing the 
> right thing with backslashes.

There's no reason to ever use backslashes in paths, ever.

> There is a chance the bug exists in the "Unix" path as well, since 
> backslashes are legal in POSIX paths but not on Cygwin, but since the 
> in-memory change will avoid this, my motivation to fix this bug twice is 
> low.  Once should be enough.

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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 12.06.2013, <04:19>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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