Where can I download older SQLite binaries? - sqlite

I've got a problem with my web application. A query that completes in a few seconds in SQLite 3.7.4 on Windows takes a whole 6 minutes in SQLite 3.6.22 on Linux. On the very same database file. It contains a few WHERE NOT EXISTS parts so I can imagine something has been optimised there.
But the SQLite version is fixed on the Linux side, it's bound to the distribution so I cannot update it. When I tried a current Linux binary and uploaded it to the server, the shell just said the file would not exist. It was there, ls found it and it was mode 755 by my own user...
And I can't find that specific version for Windows as well to try it in the other direction. The SQLite download site only contains the very current version and nothing else. There's not even an archive of older releases...
Does anybody know where I can find older versions? Preferably as binary as I don't want to spent hours to get it compiled.

You can check out and compile older releases from the Fossil repository.

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Azerothcore sql assembler script isnt working

I followed the instructions in
https://www.azerothcore.org/wiki/Database-Setup
keep getting this
my OS is windows 10
It looks like you have a space in your username. From my understanding the db_assembler.sh does not currently support spaces in the path. I would suggest moving your azerothcore source folder to a different directory.

How do I install pglogical extension on Windows machine?

I need to migrate an enterprise production database from a Windows source machine running Postgres 9.5 to an Ubuntu destination machine running Postgres 11.6 with < 15 mins downtime. I plan to do this with pglogical, which requires the extension being loaded on both source and destination. I am having trouble with the source side because it is Windows.
I have very little Postgres-Windows experience and can neither find any helpful literature on the specific situation nor can I figure out for myself how to presumably install from source.
I've dug and dug and so far the only answer I've been able to find is "ugh... Windows". It seems like the only way to build from source is using Visual Studio, which I don't have or know how to use.
Sources:
https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/blog/compiling-postgresql-extensions-visual-studio-windows/
https://postgrespro.ru/list/thread-id/1835275
Alex, the 2ndQuadrant article you link to in your own comment solves this. A few of the project or build options noted there have moved a little bit in the newer VisualStudio Community editions, so I can see where you got hung-up.
Just for kicks I compiled 32-bit DLL on my oldest Windows instance. I included the /Release path so you can grab my DLL & see if it works for you. It's (a) 32-bit because I'm assuming worst-case for an old v9.5 install, and (b) targets Postgres 9.6 because that's what I had installed. Unless there were major API changes though, it should connect to v9.5 without any issues:
https://github.com/mbijon/winpglogical/tree/master
If you find you need a version that entirely matches Postgres 9.5, grab my solution files & VS Community 20xx. Load the project & update the Additional Include Directories in Project Config to target your v9.5 paths. That should be all that's needed to link v9.5 Postgres libs.

Program made with PyInstaller now seen as a Trojan Horse by AVG

About a month ago, I used PyInstaller and Inno Setup to produce an installer for my Python 3 script. My AVG Business Edition AntiVirus just started complaining with today's update that the program has an SCGeneric Trojan Horse in the main .exe file used to start the program (in the folder created by PyInstaller that has all of the Python "guts"). At first I just thought it was a false positive in AVG, but submitting the .exe file to VirusTotal I get this analysis:
https://virustotal.com/en/file/9b0c24a5a90d8e3a12d2e07e3f5e5224869c01732b2c79fd88a8986b8cf30406/analysis/1493881088/
Which shows that 11 out of 61 scanners detect a problem:
TheHacker Trojan/Agent.am
NANO-Antivirus Trojan.Win32.Agent.elyxeb
DrWeb Trojan.Starter.7246
Yandex Trojan.Crypren!52N9f3NgRrY
Jiangmin Trojan.Agent.asnd
SentinelOne (Static ML) static engine - malicious
AVG SCGeneric.KTO
Rising Malware.Generic.5!tfe (thunder:5:ujHAaqkyw6C)
CrowdStrike Falcon (ML) malicious_confidence_93% (D)
Endgame malicious (high confidence) 20170503
Zillya Dropper.Sysn.Win32.5954
Now I can't say that these other scanners are ones that I have heard of before... but still I'm concerned that it is not just AVG giving a false positive.
I have submitted the .exe file in question to AVG for their analysis. Hopefully they will back off on whatever it is that they thought they were trying to detect.
Is there anything else I can do with PyInstaller to make it so that the .exe launcher that it created won't be considered a Trojan?
I was always getting some false positives with PyInstaller from VirusTotal. This is how I fixed it:
PyInstaller comes with pre-compiled bootloader binaries for different OSs. I suggest compile them by yourself on your machine. Make sure everything is consistent on your machine. For Windows 64-bit, install Python 64-bit. Download PyInstaller 64-bit for Windows. Make sure Visual Studio (VS) corresponding to your Python is installed, check below:
https://wiki.python.org/moin/WindowsCompilers
Compile the bootloader of PyInstaller on your machine with VS. It automatically updates the run.exe, runw.exe, run_d.exe, runw_d.exe in DownloadedPyinstallerFolder\PyInstaller\bootloader\Windows-64bit. Check below for more info on how to compile the bootloader:
https://pyinstaller.readthedocs.io/en/stable/bootloader-building.html
At the end, install PyInstaller. Within the PyInstaller directory, run
python setup.py install
I was able to submit the file in question to AVG's "Report a false detection" page, at https://secure.avg.com/submit-sample. I received a response back fairly quickly (I can't remember exactly how long, but it was less than a day) that they had analyzed my file and determined that it did not have a virus. They said that they had adjusted their virus definitions so that it would not trigger a false positive anymore. I updated my definitions and it was still triggering, so I contacted them again with my virus definition version, and I heard back that the version I had wasn't high enough - I think there was some delay on my definitions because I get them from a local server. But within a day I had the right version of the definitions and the false positive didn't trigger anymore.
So if you have a false positive with AVG, I would recommend this solution - fairly quick and easy to get a resolution to the problem.
I puzzled over this question for two days and finally found a problem with my application. The issue was with the application's icon.
Example for tkinter:
root.iconbitmap('./icon.ico')
When I removed this line of code, the false-positive Trojan was gone.
Also, make sure not to use --icon dependency when you are converting your .py file into .exe. Otherwise, this will cause the same false-positive Trojan detection.
I faced same issue for my small document register project code.
My temporary solution was to allow the app in windows defender and
other solution was to use the command pyinstaller filename.py instead of pyinstaller --onefile filename.py.
I dont know if it is correct. But it worked for me.
I searched many blogs for weeks. But I found nothing..
Today I found a way to convert py to exe without any virus errors.
Virus Total Report
So in this method you do not need to send any reports.. Actually It is very simple.
You need to install a module named Nuitka.
python -m pip install nuitka
Then you need to open command from from the file path. And use the command;
python -m nuitka --mingw64 filename.py
And that's all.
You can use the command
nuitka --help
You can find more at - Nuitka Guide
I had this same problem using python 3.8.5 and pyinstaller 4.5.1
In my case the first exe build was accepted by the antivirus (Windows Defender) but subsequent builds were flagged as having a trojan.
I solved it by using the pyinstaller --clean option every time I built the executable
Reverting back to PyInstaller 3.1.1 from 3.4 resolved similar issues on my end (at least temporarily).
As #boogie_bullfrog told, reverting to a previous version could be a solution. However I used *.spec file to store some data (like pictures and icons). I had the latest 3.5 version (August, 2019) and moving to 3.1.1 caused error when app was compiled (probably due to supporting Python 3.7).
So right now the easiest solution is to downgrade to 3.4
It supports specs from pyinstaller 3.5 and the onefile-app wasn't detected by Windows 10 built-in firewall
What I did was to solve this(make exe files non detectable as virus) was to downgrade pyinstaller by typing in cmd: pip install pyinstaller==4.1.0
And by the way it didn't work on 3.4.0 so I just randomly picked that version(4.1) and its pretty good looking so far :>
I'm pretty sure that it works on more than only that one version but that i experienced personally
Recompile and then reinstall your Pyinstaller bootloader manually.
This was a problem I had for a while, and my friend and I figured out this resolution with the help of many others. It almost always works to resolve the issue.
I posted the specific steps on my medium blog. Shared the link below, but the basic steps are as follows
Purge Pyinstaller Files within your Project and Rebuild
Uninstall Pyinstaller
Build a Pyinstaller Bootloader with your Compiler
Install the newly compiled Pyinstaller
Re-build your EXE with Pyinstaller, and make sure it’s not being be flagged as a virus
How to Resolve the Python Pyinstaller False Positive Trojan Virus
Part 1. Manually Compile your Pyinstaller Bootloader
Part 2. Working with Anti-Virus Developer(s)
I had a similar problem with a pyinstaller exe under Windows. Avira put that file into quarantine since it was considered potentially dangerous (due to heuristics, which means that some segments look typical for a virus, but no virus is actually found).
Keep in mind that the exe files you generate yourself are unique (as a consequence, the Avast scanner usually returns a message "you have found a rare file, we are doing a quick test", and delays execution for 15 seconds to perform a more thorough test).
My solution consists of some steps:
I have uploaded the exe to https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/upload to check it with many scanners. If just one or two are detecting a virus, you should be on the safe side.
In order to make your local virus scanner accept the file, you can manually accept it for your computer, but this does not solve the underlying problem, so on other computers it would still be flagged as a virus.
Therefore I reported the file as false positive to Avira, which can simply be done by sending it by email. Other scanners have similar feedback lines. I got a feedback by email within one day that it is ok, and the scanner on my pc agrees with this now. Hope that this helps with the next iterations of my exe so that it stays clean.
Had the same problem today. Win8.1 would keep flagging .exe as virus. Updated to pyinstaller 5.7.0 but the issue persisted. Uninstalled pyinstaller 5.7.0 and did a fresh install. Strangely, Win8.1 isn't complaining anymore!

How to clear searchable history database in RStudio

In addition to the .Rhistory file,
RStudio maintains a database of all commands which you have ever entered into the Console. You can browse and search this database using the History pane. (source)
This one appears to still be searchable even when .Rhistory has been deleted.
How can I empty it? Cleaning it up might be necessary after, for example, installing from a private repo using a password, when I know other users have access to the computer. For example, I was a bit anxious seeing this popping up, after entering pass into the search field... (ノ゚0゚)ノ~
Thanks to Phann's hint, I found:
Deleting history_database seems to do the job. An empty database file is automatically recreated when starting RStudio again (tested on MacOS and Linux). The folder where to find history_database depends on your os and is described for the more general case here.
MacOS and Linux
~/.rstudio-desktop
Windows Vista, 7 and 8
%localappdata%\RStudio-Desktop # (i.e. Phann's path, I guess)
Windows XP
%USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data\RStudio-Desktop
Linux RStudio-Server
~/.rstudio
On my Win7 system, I found the file history_database within C:/Users/../AppData/Local/RStudio-Desktop. It has a unix-like time stamp per line followed by a command.
I would guess that if you empty this file, the history is cleared. But I haven't tried the solution yet, so better make a copy of the file to be on the save side.
The file should be in a similar folder in Win10.

Cygwin SVN: E200030: SQLite disk I/O error

When I use Subversion in Cygwin to update some repository, some directories update with success, while some other one gets a failure with the error message:
svn: E200030: sqlite: disk I/O error
When doing svn update again for the same repository, a different directory can get the same error. Sometimes, there is a SVN instruction after the above error message.
This happened due to a change someone wanted in Cygwin's SQLite package. I was the maintainer of that package when this question was asked, and I made the change that caused this symptom.
The change was released as Cygwin SQLite version 3.7.12.1-1, and it fixed that one person's problem, but it had this bad side effect of preventing Cygwin's Subversion package from cooperating with native Windows Subversion implementations.
What Happened?
The core issue here is that Subversion 1.7 changed the working copy on-disk format. Part of that change involves a new SQLite database file, .svn/wc.db. Now, in order to implement SQLite's concurrency guarantees, SQLite locks the database file while it is accessing it.
That's all fine and sensible, but you run into a problem when you try to mix Windows native and POSIX file locking semantics. On Windows, file locking almost always means mandatory locking, but on Linux systems — which Cygwin is trying to emulate — locking usually means advisory locking instead.
That helps understand where the "disk I/O error" comes from.
The Cygwin SQLite 3.7.12.1-1 change was to build the library in "Unix mode" instead of "Cygwin mode." In Cygwin mode, the library uses Windows native file locking, which goes against the philosophy of Cygwin: where possible, Cygwin packages call POSIX functions instead of direct to the Windows API, so that cygwin1.dll can provide the proper POSIX semantics.
POSIX advisory file locking is exactly what you want with SQLite when all the programs accessing the SQLite DBs in question are built with Cygwin, which is the default assumption within Cygwin. But, when you run a Windows native Subversion program like TortoiseSVN alongside a pure POSIX Cygwin svn, you get a conflict. When the TortoiseSVN Windows Explorer shell extension has the .svn/wc.db file locked with a mandatory lock and Cygwin svn comes along and tries an advisory lock on it, it fails immediately. Cygwin svn assumes a lock attempt will either succeed immediately or block until it can succeed, so it incorrectly interprets the lock failure as a disk I/O error.
How Did We Solve This Dilemma?
Within Cygwin, we always try to play nice with Windows native programs where possible. The trick was to find a way to do that, while still playing nice with Cygwin programs, too.
Not everyone agreed that we should attempt this. "Cygwin SQLite is part of Cygwin, so it only needs to work well with other Cygwin programs," one group would say. The counterpartisans would reply, "Cygwin runs on Windows, so it has to perform well with other Windows programs."
Fortunately, we came up with a way to make both groups happy.
As part of the Cygwin SQLite 3.7.17-x packaging effort, I tested a new feature that Corinna Vinschen added to cygwin1.dll version 1.7.19. It allowed a program to request mandatory file locking through the BSD file locking APIs. My part of the change was to make Cygwin SQLite turn this feature on and off at the user's direction, allowing the same package to meet the needs of both the Cygwin-centric and Windows-native camps.
This Cygwin DLL feature was further improved in 1.7.20, and I released Cygwin SQLite 3.7.13-3 using the finalized locking semantics. This version allowed a choice of three locking strategies: POSIX advisory locking, BSD advisory locking, and BSD/Cygwin mandatory locking. So far, the latter strategy has proven to be completely compatible with native Windows locking.
Later, when Jan Nijtmans took over maintenance of Cygwin SQLite, he further enhanced this mechanism by fully integrating it with the SQLite VFS layer. This allowed a fourth option: the native Windows locking that Cygwin SQLite used to use before we started on this journey. This is mostly a hedge against the possibility that the BSD/Windows locking strategy doesn't cooperate cleanly with a native Windows SQLite program. So far as I know, no one has ever needed to use this option, but it's nice to know it's there.
Alternate Remedy
If the conflict you're having is between Cygwin's command line svn and the TortoiseSVN Windows Explorer shell extension, there's another option to fix it. TortoiseSVN ships with native Windows Subversion command-line programs as well. If you put these in your PATH ahead of Cygwin's bin directory, you shouldn't run into this problem at all.
Having encountered the same problem, it appears (in my case at least) to be an interaction with TortoiseSVN. Disabling TortoiseSVN's status icon cache (Settings > Icon Overlays > Status cache "None" > Apply) has everything working just fine for me.
(That obviously doesn't resolve the underlying problem, which appears to be due to the SQL package that Cygwin's Subversion package relies on changing its mode of access. As I write, there's active [if slow] discussion on the Cygwin mailing list about how to resolve this.)
ldd /usr/bin/svn shows that SVN depends on /usr/bin/cygsqlite3-0.dll.
After I change libsqlite3 from 3.7.12 back to 3.7.3, the problem seems to go away. So this may be a SQLite library problem.
Using TortoiseSVN, ticking off Refresh shell overlays at clean up solved the problem for me.
For others reference, I just had this same error (svn: E200030: sqlite: disk I/O error) and found that one of my log files was taking up all my space (and could not write to the HDD because there was no free space).
Run (to make sure you have enough disk space)
df -h
(If you don't delete some large files (I just removed some backup and log files)
Then I just needed to run:
svn cleanup
This resolved the error for me.

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