sqlite3.dylib: illegal multi-threaded access to database connection

Question

I have an iOS app that uses sqlite3 and I\'m facing issues with multi-threading crashing the app with the illegal multi-threaded access to database connec

Answer 1

It turns out that SQLITE_CONFIG_MULTITHREAD mode works well on a multi-threading environment as long as you don't use the same connection simultaneously; which happen to be the exact scenario that I had. Therefore, to solve this issue you can either open a new connection for each thread or use SQLITE_CONFIG_SERIALIZED in full mutex mode using SQLITE_OPEN_FULLMUTEX flag to open the connection.

The helper method ended up like so:

+(sqlite3*) getInstance {
  if (instance == NULL) {
    sqlite3_shutdown();
    sqlite3_config(SQLITE_CONFIG_SERIALIZED);
    sqlite3_initialize();

    NSLog(@"isThreadSafe %d", sqlite3_threadsafe());

    const char *path = [@"./path/to/db/db.sqlite" cStringUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];

    if (sqlite3_open_v2(path, &database, SQLITE_OPEN_READWRITE|SQLITE_OPEN_FULLMUTEX, NULL) != SQLITE_OK) {
      NSLog(@"Database opening failed!");
    }
  }

  return instance;
}