You can VACUUM INTO, ~~but standard vacuum won’t rewrite the whole db~~ (vacuum rewrites the whole db)

https://sqlite.org/lang_vacuum.html

(Edit: if multiple processes are concurrently reading and writing, and one process vacuums, verify that the right things happen: specifically, that concurrent writes from other processes during a vacuum don’t get erased by the other processes’ vacuum. You may need an external advisory lock to avoid data loss).

> You can VACUUM INTO, but standard vacuum won’t rewrite the whole db.

This is not true. From the link you posted:

> The VACUUM command works by copying the contents of the database into a temporary database file and then overwriting the original with the contents of the temporary file.

Ugh, you’re totally right.

I always get optimize and vacuum mixed up.

https://sqlite.org/pragma.html#pragma_optimize

> You can VACUUM INTO, ~~but standard vacuum won’t rewrite the whole db~~ (vacuum rewrites the whole db)

HN does not support whatever markup you are trying to use. You have to use Unicode:

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