Say I have a /databases/ directory with multiple sqlite db files in that dir (1.db & 2.db) and an inspect-data.json file.

If I start datasette via datasette -h 0.0.0.0 /databases/ then the resulting databases are set to is_mutable: true as inspected via http://127.0.0.1:8001/-/databases.json

I don't want to have to list out the databases by name, e.g. datasette -i /databases/1.db -i /databases/2.db as i want the system to autodetect the sqlite dbs i have in the configuration directory

According to the docs outlined in https://docs.datasette.io/en/latest/settings.html?highlight=immutable#configuration-directory-mode this should be possible

inspect-data.json the result of running datasette inspect - any database files listed here will be treated as immutable, so they should not be changed while Datasette is running

I believe that if the inspect-json.json file present, then in theory the databases will be automatically set to immutable via this code https://github.com/simonw/datasette/blob/9603d893b9b72653895318c9104d754229fdb146/datasette/app.py#L211-L216

However it appears the Click Multiple Options will return a tuple via https://github.com/simonw/datasette/blob/9603d893b9b72653895318c9104d754229fdb146/datasette/cli.py#L311-L317

The resulting tuple is passed to the Datasette app via kwargs and overrides the behaviour to set the databases to immutable via this arg https://github.com/simonw/datasette/blob/9603d893b9b72653895318c9104d754229fdb146/datasette/app.py#L182

If you think this is a bug and needs fixing, I am willing to make a PR to check for the empty immutable tuple before calling the Datasette class initializer as I think leaving that class interface alone is the best path here.

Thoughts?

Also - i'm loving Datasette, it truly is a wonderful tool, thank you :)

Feel free to close this issue - I mostly added it for reference for future folks that run into this :)

I have a CSV file with one column that has very long strings. When i try to import this file via the insert command I get the following error: ``` sqlite-utils insert database.db table_name file_with_large_column.csv

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/bin/sqlite-utils", line 10, in <module> sys.exit(cli()) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 829, in call return self.main(args, kwargs) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 782, in main rv = self.invoke(ctx) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1259, in invoke return _process_result(sub_ctx.command.invoke(sub_ctx)) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1066, in invoke return ctx.invoke(self.callback, ctx.params) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 610, in invoke return callback(args, kwargs) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/sqlite_utils/cli.py", line 774, in insert default=default, File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/sqlite_utils/cli.py", line 705, in insert_upsert_implementation docs, pk=pk, batch_size=batch_size, alter=alter, extra_kwargs File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/sqlite_utils/db.py", line 1852, in insert_all first_record = next(records) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/sqlite_utils/cli.py", line 703, in <genexpr> docs = (decode_base64_values(doc) for doc in docs) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/sqlite_utils/cli.py", line 681, in <genexpr> docs = (dict(zip(headers, row)) for row in reader) _csv.Error: field larger than field limit (131072) Built with the docker image `datasetteproject/datasette:0.54` with the following versions:

sqlite-utils --version

sqlite-utils, version 3.4.1

datasette --version

datasette, version 0.54 ``` It appears this is a known issue reading in csv files in python and doesn't look to be modifiable through system / env vars (i may be very wrong on this).

Noting that using sqlite3 import command work without error (not using the python csv reader) sqlite3 database.db sqlite> .mode csv sqlite> .import file_with_large_column.csv table_name Sadly I couldn't see an easy way around this while using the cli as it appears this value needs to be changed in python code. FWIW I've switched to using https://datasette.io/tools/csvs-to-sqlite for importing csv data and it's working well.

Finally, I'm loving https://datasette.io/ thank you very much for an amazing tool and data ecosytem 🙇‍♀️