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PSA: SQLite does not do checksums - blag

SQLite does not do checksums by default. I learned this from Alex Miller. What does this mean? If there is disk corruption, the database or application won’t be able to know that the database is ‘corrupt’.Even a single bit flip can cause havoc. This can happen due to a faulty disk, a bug in the disk driver, or when another application (malicious or otherwise) modifies the database files.This is not a bug - it’s properly documented:SQLite assumes that the detection and/or correction of bit errors...

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