sqlite3, memory db and multithreading

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Thu Mar 18 18:06:00 EDT 2010


In article <hnt81m$fsi$1 at news.task.gda.pl>,
=?UTF-8?B?a3LDs2xld25h?=  <królewna at ee.pl> wrote:
>
>The problem is simple: I have multiple threads within one program. At 
>least 2 threads have to have access to in-memory sqlite database. It is 
>not possible to pass sqlite objects to those threads because an 
>exception is rised:
>
>ProgrammingError: SQLite objects created in a thread can only be used in 
>that same thread.The object was created in thread id -1219066176 and 
>this is thread id -1224475792
>
>Is there any EASY way to use this in-memory db in many threads? Creating 
>another connection is not a solution as it creates completely new db 
>instead of connecting to the existing one.

You probably need to serialize access to the database through one thread.
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