SQLITE_NOTICE_RECOVER_ROLLBACKINFOTier 1 — Safe⚠️ MEDIUM confidenceHot 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
- 1Application crashed or exited uncleanly while a rollback-mode journal was active.
- 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 automaticallyLog: "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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