dbgate-sqlite-dumper 0.1.0 → 0.1.1
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- package/LICENSE +674 -674
- package/README.md +247 -230
- package/dist/better-sqlite3.cjs.map +1 -1
- package/dist/better-sqlite3.d.cts +1 -1
- package/dist/better-sqlite3.d.ts +1 -1
- package/dist/better-sqlite3.js.map +1 -1
- package/dist/d1.cjs +260 -0
- package/dist/d1.cjs.map +1 -0
- package/dist/d1.d.cts +101 -0
- package/dist/d1.d.ts +101 -0
- package/dist/d1.js +229 -0
- package/dist/d1.js.map +1 -0
- package/dist/errors-CplNzuYs.d.cts +20 -0
- package/dist/errors-CplNzuYs.d.ts +20 -0
- package/dist/index.cjs +405 -90
- package/dist/index.cjs.map +1 -1
- package/dist/index.d.cts +58 -24
- package/dist/index.d.ts +58 -24
- package/dist/index.js +400 -89
- package/dist/index.js.map +1 -1
- package/dist/{types-CTyJTzB6.d.cts → types-DziV5ysl.d.cts} +67 -2
- package/dist/{types-CTyJTzB6.d.ts → types-DziV5ysl.d.ts} +67 -2
- package/docs/architecture.md +180 -157
- package/docs/better-sqlite3-adapter.md +83 -83
- package/docs/d1-adapter.md +98 -0
- package/docs/dump-api.md +253 -253
- package/docs/known-limitations.md +100 -88
- package/docs/native-compatibility.md +124 -124
- package/docs/restore-api.md +234 -234
- package/docs/round-trip-testing.md +84 -84
- package/docs/supported-data-types.md +74 -74
- package/docs/supported-objects.md +85 -85
- package/package.json +96 -89
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newline or `*/` before its `;`, chosen with `sqlite3_complete()` exactly as the shell does.
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plain identifier or when a keyword (`quoteChar()`, with SQLite's 147 keywords).
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- **Values.** Integers as decimal; `REAL` as `%lld.0` when integral and in range, else
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`replace('...\n...','\n',char(10))`, with a placeholder guaranteed not to occur in the
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- **Virtual tables.** Written as `INSERT INTO sqlite_schema(...)` under
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`PRAGMA writable_schema=ON`, not as `CREATE VIRTUAL TABLE`, so the module's constructor
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does not run and the shadow tables — which the dump then fills with the source's exact
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contents — are not rebuilt. The whole dump is preceded by
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`/* WARNING: Script requires that SQLITE_DBCONFIG_DEFENSIVE be disabled */`.
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- **System tables.** `DELETE FROM sqlite_sequence;` before the `AUTOINCREMENT` counters,
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`ANALYZE sqlite_schema;` before each statistics table's rows.
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## Native quirks reproduced deliberately
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These are faithful to the shell rather than "fixed", because a dump that differs from the
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native one for no stated reason is harder to trust than one with a documented quirk. Each is
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reported as a warning when it applies.
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- **`.dump --data-only` selects virtual tables' rows twice** — through the table itself,
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and again as the shadow tables' rows — because the shell checks for data-only before it
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checks for a virtual table. Restoring such a dump into a database where the virtual table
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exists conflicts with its own shadow rows (`data-only-virtual-table`).
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- **`.dump --data-only` inserts into system tables without preparing them**: the
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`sqlite_sequence` rows are not preceded by a `DELETE`, and the statistics rows by no
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`ANALYZE` (`data-only-system-table`).
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- **`-0.0` is written as `0.0`**, because the shell's integral test is true for it.
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[dump-api.md](dump-api.md#data-only-dumps) gives the option set that avoids the first two
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when loading rows into an existing schema.
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## Deliberate deviations
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Only where the native behaviour loses data, and never for data the shell can represent:
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- **`NUL` characters in text are kept.** The shell handles values as C strings and drops
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everything after the first `NUL`; this package writes `'a'||char(0)||'b'`, which the
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shell restores correctly. Text without `NUL` — all text in practice — is unaffected.
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- **A schema-only dump** has no native `.dump` equivalent. It creates virtual tables with
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their own `CREATE VIRTUAL TABLE` (as `.schema` shows them) and leaves their shadow tables
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to the module, since no shadow rows follow.
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- **Partial dumps** (a `selection`) keep only the selected tables' `sqlite_sequence` and
|
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103
|
+
statistics rows, and reset only their counters
|
|
104
|
+
(`DELETE FROM sqlite_sequence WHERE lower(name) IN (...)`). The native `.dump PATTERN`
|
|
105
|
+
omits the counters of the selected tables entirely.
|
|
106
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+
|
|
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+
## Restoring native dumps
|
|
108
|
+
|
|
109
|
+
The restore side reproduces how the shell _reads_ a script, which is what makes any
|
|
110
|
+
`sqlite3` script restorable, not just `.dump` output:
|
|
111
|
+
|
|
112
|
+
- statement boundaries from `sqlite3_complete()`, so trigger bodies stay whole;
|
|
113
|
+
- `GO` and `/` lines as terminators, `#` lines at column 0 as comments, dot-commands at
|
|
114
|
+
column 0 as shell commands;
|
|
115
|
+
- a `\r` immediately before `\n` dropped everywhere, as the shell's line reader does;
|
|
116
|
+
- a leading UTF-8 byte-order mark ignored;
|
|
117
|
+
- a final statement without `;` still executed.
|
|
118
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+
|
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119
|
+
And it accounts for running inside an application instead of a process that exits:
|
|
120
|
+
|
|
121
|
+
- the defensive mode a virtual-table dump requires is lifted for the restore and put back;
|
|
122
|
+
- the schema is reloaded afterwards, so restored virtual tables work on the same handle;
|
|
123
|
+
- `foreign_keys` is put back to its previous value (a native dump never re-enables it);
|
|
124
|
+
- a transaction left open by a failing or truncated script is rolled back.
|