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I used SQLx with an SQLite database and ran into connection pool problems that would cause the database to be unexpectedly dropped.

The issues I saw seem to be related to these issues:

https://github.com/launchbadge/sqlx/issues/3080

https://github.com/launchbadge/sqlx/issues/2510

The problems did not manifest until the application was under load with multiple concurrent sessions.

Troubleshooting the issue by changing the connection pool parameters did not seem to help.

I ended up refactoring the application's data layer to use a NoSQL approach to work around the issue.

I really like the idea of SQLx and appreciate the efforts of the SQLx developers, but I would advise caution if you plan to use SQLx with SQLite.



As a total outsider to sqlx, those issues don’t surprise me: any application on any platform that uses a SQLite in-memory DB concurrently is likely to violate many assumptions made by client-side connection pooling tools. In-memory SQLite is a great tool, but using it indirectly behind a connection pooler that assumes the database is external to the current process is bound to cause problems.


Agree with zbentley, I actually wouldn't expect this to work well - perhaps a good thing for sqlx team to warn against.


SQLx is great, but I had a long laundry list of issues with its SQLite support so I forked it into a focused SQLite-specific library. It has now diverged very far from SQLx, and the number of small inaccuracies and issues we fixed in the low-level SQLite bindings is well into the dozens. The library is unannounced, but is already being used in some high-throughput scenarios.

https://github.com/cortesi/musq


Musq looks very friendly. I will try it in a future project.

Thank you for sharing it!




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