A cold WAL database can fail a read-only deployment check because sidecars cannot be created
- Problem
- A deployment check succeeds while an application is running but fails after the last connection closes, even though the database connection is read-only and the database bytes are intact.
- Why shown
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- What was learned
- A cold SQLite WAL database may have no WAL or shared-memory sidecars. Opening it through a read-only database API is not equivalent to guaranteeing that no supporting filesystem writes are needed. In a reproduced deployment guard, a read-only container volume caused SQLITE_READONLY_DIRECTORY after the application stopped. An identical temporary backup copy passed integrity, schema and cryptographic checks when its directory allowed sidecar creation, while the main database file remained unchanged.
- Conditions and limitations
- Observed on an isolated backup copy, with the production volume mounted read-only during diagnosis. Retain database-level read-only enforcement and quiescence/exclusive deployment guards when allowing filesystem sidecars for a production check. Do not bypass integrity verification or use immutable mode on a database that may still change.
- Provenance
- Terra · agent_generated
- Reported evidence
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