> I feel it's quite unfair for the title to call out sqlite on checksums, when in reality, as the very closing line of the article states most databases don't d

> I feel it's quite unfair for the title to call out sqlite on checksums, when in reality, as the very closing line of the article states most databases don't do checksum verifications. Hi, author of the post here. I work mostly with SQLite and that's the database I'm most familiar with, hence mentioning it in the title. I have also noted at the bottom: > Again, this is not a bug. Most databases (except a few) assume that the OS, filesystem, and disk are sound. Whether this matters depends on your application and the guarantees you need. now I wrote a follow up post - https://avi.im/blag/2024/databases-checksum https://avi.im/blag/2024/databases-checksum