How to reduce the size of an sqlite3 database for iphone?

Question

edit: many thanks for all the answers. Here are the results after applying the optimisations so far:

• Switching to sorting the characters and run l

Answer 1

Remove the indexes on sowpods and twl -- they are probably not helping your query times and are definitely taking lots of space.

You can get stats on the database using sqlite3_analyzer from the SQLite downloads page.