| 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. | |