Databases

Lobsters · August 25, 2026 10:46

Another look at SQLite's WAL-Reset bug - The Consensus

A stale read let a SQLite checkpoint discard committed WAL frames for sixteen years. We reproduce the race with a 100-line C workload, getting both lost writes and a corrupted database file within seconds using only the public SQLite API.

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