1This folder contains extensions and utility programs intended to analyze 2live database files, detect problems, and possibly fix them. 3 4As SQLite is being used on larger and larger databases, database sizes 5are growing into the terabyte range. At that size, hardware malfunctions 6and/or cosmic rays will occasionally corrupt a database file. Detecting 7problems and fixing errors a terabyte-sized databases can take hours or days, 8and it is undesirable to take applications that depend on the databases 9off-line for such a long time. 10The utilities in the folder are intended to provide mechanisms for 11detecting and fixing problems in large databases while those databases 12are in active use. 13 14The utilities and extensions in this folder are experimental and under 15active development at the time of this writing (2017-10-12). If and when 16they stabilize, this README will be updated to reflect that fact. 17