database-specific commands like SQLite .dump

[0xBrian]

Commands to SQLite like .dump, are these something that can be transmitted by diesel? In other words, can I get SQLite to create a database dump programmatically via diesel using some raw command interface?

[weiznich]

Commands like .dump are implemented as part of the sqlite3 command line tool and not as part of libsqlite3. Diesel depends on libsqlite3, not on the command line tool. That means diesel has no access to this functionality.
That written: As the command line tool uses libsqlite3 internally it should be possible to implement a similar functionality on top of that library (and on top of diesel).

[0xBrian]

I see. Thank you!