SQLITE_IOERR_ROLLBACK_ATOMIC
SQLiteFATALCriticalI/O Errorofficial confidence
I/O error rolling back atomic write
Production Risk
Critical — database state is unknown.
What this means
SQLITE_IOERR_ROLLBACK_ATOMIC (7946) is returned when the VFS cannot roll back a failed atomic write. The database state is unknown and may require recovery or restore.
Why it happens
- 1Hardware failure during atomic rollback.
- 2VFS error aborting the atomic write batch.
How to reproduce
ROLLBACK on a database using atomic write VFS after another error.
trigger — this will error
trigger — this will error
# Occurs when ROLLBACK itself fails on an atomic-write VFS # → indeterminate database state
expected output
sqlite3.DatabaseError: disk I/O error
Fix 1
Fix 2
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What not to do
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Sources
Official documentation ↗
sqlite3.h — SQLITE_IOERR_ROLLBACK_ATOMIC = 7946
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