SQLite3, "ALTER TABLE" and durability

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Published on 2010-03-20T23:53:55Z Indexed on 2010/03/21 0:01 UTC
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I'd like to run some ALTER TABLE statements on a sqlite3 database. What happens if the user kills the process or the power is cut while the ALTER TABLE is running? Will the database be left in a corrupt intermediate state?

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