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Re:Spotify excessively writing to drive by philipkglass on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @03:47PM (#12914468)
7 x's, one to overwrite all of VACUUM; including the terminating semicolon.

I didn't count the x's in the quoted text that I copied from the thread.

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Re:Spotify excessively writing to drive by 0x0 on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @10:58PM (#12917603)
If you overwrite the ; is there not a risk you might cause the next legitimate sqlite operation to fail?
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Re:Spotify excessively writing to drive by SturgeonsLaw on Thursday November 10, 2016 @05:41AM (#12919286)
They might get lucky and overwrite the last SQL statement in the method. Seems likely with a statement like VACUUM.
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