SQLITE_IOERR_NOMEM
SQLiteFATALCriticalI/O Errorofficial confidence
I/O subsystem out of memory
Production Risk
Critical — I/O operations cannot complete.
What this means
SQLITE_IOERR_NOMEM (3082) is returned by the VFS layer when a memory allocation fails inside the I/O subsystem — distinct from SQLITE_NOMEM which is a core allocator failure.
Why it happens
- 1System out of memory (OOM) during VFS I/O operation.
- 2Memory limit set too low for the I/O buffer requirements.
How to reproduce
I/O operations requiring memory allocation in the VFS layer.
trigger — this will error
trigger — this will error
# Same pattern as SQLITE_NOMEM — system RAM exhausted
expected output
sqlite3.OperationalError: out of memory
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Sources
Official documentation ↗
sqlite3.h — SQLITE_IOERR_NOMEM = 3082
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