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To call it strange or unusual is fine but it isn't a compelling argument why not to use it. Is it better or worse than a vfs approach and why?

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Taking an amateurish or fancy or experimental approach to compressing a sqlite database is a great way to end up with data loss. Doesn't make it a worthless or "bad" project but it's worthy of a warning.

Why not read the sqlite teams own explanation:

https://www.sqlite.org/zipvfs/doc/trunk/www/howitworks.wiki

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