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SQLITE_NOTICE_RECOVER_ROLLBACKINFOTier 1 — Safe⚠️ MEDIUM confidence

Hot journal rollback in progress (log notice)

Category: LoggingVersions: 3.7.15+

🔴 Production Risk Error

None — informational.

What this means

SQLITE_NOTICE_RECOVER_ROLLBACK (539) is passed to the sqlite3_log() callback when SQLite recovers a hot rollback journal after a crash. It is informational and indicates automatic recovery.

Why it happens

  1. 1Application crashed or exited uncleanly while a rollback-mode journal was active.
  2. 2A -journal file was found on database open and is being rolled back.

How to reproduce

First database open after crash in rollback journal mode.

trigger — this will ERROR
# Log message: "recovered from hot journal ..."
# No action needed; SQLite rolls back the journal automatically
Log: "recovered from hot journal /path/my.db-journal"

Fix 1

Why this works

No fix needed — SQLite handles this automatically.

Sources

📚 Official docs: https://www.sqlite.org/rescode.html#notice_recover_rollback

🔧 Source ref: sqlite3.h — SQLITE_NOTICE_RECOVER_ROLLBACK = 539

Confidence assessment

⚠️ MEDIUM confidence

Stable.

See also

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