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SQLite concurrency and why you should care about it

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353 points HunOL | 1 comments | 01 Nov 25 12:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.331s | source
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mangecoeur ◴[01 Nov 25 15:14 UTC] No.45782293[source]▶
Sqlite is a great bit of technology but sometimes I read articles like this and think, maybe they should have used postgres. I you don’t specifically need the “one file portability” aspect of sqlite, or its not embedded (in which case you shouldn’t have concurrency issues), Postgres is easy to get running and solves these problems.
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1. eduction ◴[01 Nov 25 15:30 UTC] No.45782439[source]▶
100%. I specifically clicked for the “why you should care” and was disappointed I could not find it.

I certainly don’t mind if someone is pushing the limits of what SQLite is designed for but personally I’d just rather invest the (rather small) overhead of setting up a db server if I need a lot of concurrency.