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Overview
Comment: | Merge fixes from the 3.23 branch. |
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45753832a87ede4c0ca0e40a0b28256e |
User & Date: | drh 2018-05-18 18:02:52.717 |
Context
2018-05-19
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14:21 | Updates to the TH3 documentation. (check-in: ac3ef1f6aa user: drh tags: trunk) | |
2018-05-18
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18:02 | Merge fixes from the 3.23 branch. (check-in: 45753832a8 user: drh tags: trunk) | |
18:02 | Update docs for the r-tree auxiliary columns. (check-in: daa211f9cd user: drh tags: trunk) | |
2018-05-17
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10:02 | New advantage of SQLite Archives: Bypass firewall censorship. (Leaf check-in: ef0b96b340 user: drh tags: branch-3.23) | |
Changes
Changes to pages/sqlar.in.
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117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 | 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 | + + + + + + + + + + | Applications that already use SQLite for other purposes can easily add support for SQLite Archives using a small extension ([https://sqlite.org/src/file/ext/misc/sqlar.c]) to handle the compression and decompression of content. Even this tiny extension can be omitted if the files in the archive are uncompressed. In contrast, supporting ZIP Archives and/or Tarballs requires either separate libraries or lots of extra custom code, or sometimes both. <li><p> An SQLite Archive can work around firewall-imposed censorship. For example, certain file types that are considered "dangerous" (examples: DLLs) will be [https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6590|blocked by Gmail] and probably many other email services and firewall, even if those files are wrapped inside a ZIP Archive or Tarball. But these firewall usually do not care about SQLite Archives and so content can be put inside an SQLite Archive to evade censorship. </ol> <h1>Disadvantages Of SQLite Archives</h1> <ol> <li><p> The SQLite Archive is a relatively new format. It was first described in |
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