App crashes while doing background database operations

[crspybits]

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• Include the SQLite.swift version, commit or branch experiencing the issue.
  0.12.2

• Mention Xcode and OS X versions affected.
  iOS 14, Xcode 12.4

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I am deploying test builds of my app on TestFlight. The app is designed to use background URLSession's to do uploading/downloading from a server while the app is in the background.

I'm fairly regularly getting crashes of the app when it goes into the background. Crash reports in Xcode are indicating this is occurring in SQLite code. Here are two examples:

I have taken the step of removing security access on the file being used by the database:

extension URL {
    func enableAccessInBackground() {
        /* By default, the NSFileProtectionKey is NSFileProtectionCompleteUntilFirstUserAuthentication and I think this is causing app crashes when it goes into the background.
         */
        let attributes = [ FileAttributeKey.protectionKey : FileProtectionType.none ]
        do {
            try FileManager.default.setAttributes(attributes, ofItemAtPath: path)
            let attr = try FileManager.default.attributesOfItem(atPath: path)
            logger.debug("SQLite db: attr: \(attr)")
        } catch let error {
            logger.error("\(error)")
        }
    }
}

Any ideas?

[crspybits]

Searching for this issue, I'm finding others recommend not keeping your SQLite database in a shared group container. Which is something I'm doing. See:
https://inessential.com/2020/02/13/how_we_fixed_the_dreaded_0xdead10cc_cras

[crspybits]

I'm wondering why the Connection constructor doesn't let you pass flags. E.g., it seems important that I be able to pass the flag SQLITE_OPEN_FILEPROTECTION_NONE.

[jberkel]

@crspybits so looks like there's not much which can be done on the library side? (other than adding this information to the documentation).

regarding your last point (pass flags for opening), that sounds like a good suggestion, we should open a separate issue for this.