/// <summary>
/// To avoid spiky INSERT performance, an application can run the
/// "merge=X,Y" command periodically, possibly in an idle thread or
/// idle process.
/// The idle thread that is running the merge commands can know when
/// it is done by checking the difference in sqlite3_total_changes()
/// before and after each "merge=X,Y" command and stopping the loop
/// when the difference drops below two.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="database">The database to use.</param>
/// <param name="type">
/// The table on which to perform the merges.
/// </param>
public static int RunMergeUntilOptimal(this SqliteSessionBase database, Type type)
{
int changes = 0;
int i;
while ((i = database.Merge(type)) >= 2)
{
changes += i;
}
return(changes);
}
/// <summary>
/// The "merge=X,Y" command (where X and Y are integers) causes
/// SQLite to do a limited amount of work toward merging the various
/// inverted index b-trees of an FTS3/4 table together into one large
/// b-tree.
/// </summary>
/// <typeparam name="T">
/// The table on which to perform the merge.
/// </typeparam>
/// <param name="database">The database to use.</param>
/// <param name="x">
/// The X value is the target number of "blocks" to be merged.
/// The value of X can be any positive integer but values on the
/// order of 100 to 300 are recommended.
/// </param>
/// <param name="y">
/// The Y is the minimum number of b-tree segments on a level
/// required before merging will be applied to that level.
/// The value of Y should be between 2 and 16 with a recommended
/// value of 8.
/// </param>
public static int Merge <T>(this SqliteSessionBase database, int x = 100, int y = 8)
{
return(database.Merge(typeof(T), x, y));
}