SQLITE_IOERR_COMMIT_ATOMICFATALTier 3 — Handle with care⚠️ MEDIUM confidenceI/O error committing atomic write
Category: I/O ErrorVersions: 3.25.0+
🔴 Production Risk Error
Critical — transaction durability cannot be guaranteed.
What this means
SQLITE_IOERR_COMMIT_ATOMIC (7690) is returned when the VFS cannot complete an atomic commit. The transaction is not durable and the database may need recovery.
Why it happens
- 1Hardware failure during atomic commit phase.
- 2VFS error completing the atomic write batch.
How to reproduce
COMMIT on a database using atomic write VFS.
trigger — this will ERROR
# Transaction commit failed at atomic commit step
# → database may be in inconsistent statesqlite3.DatabaseError: disk I/O error
Fix 1
Why this works
Check disk hardware health immediately.
Fix 2
Why this works
Run PRAGMA integrity_check on next open.
Fix 3
Why this works
Restore from backup if integrity check fails.
Sources
📚 Official docs: https://www.sqlite.org/rescode.html#ioerr_commit_atomic
🔧 Source ref: sqlite3.h — SQLITE_IOERR_COMMIT_ATOMIC = 7690
Confidence assessment
⚠️ MEDIUM confidence
Stable.
See also
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