The text in this document also directly contradicts what you're saying. Put another way: the presence of a hot journal is how SQLite determines the database mig

The text in this document also directly contradicts what you're saying. Put another way: the presence of a hot journal is how SQLite determines the database might be corrupted. https://sqlite.org/lockingv3.html#hot_journals https://sqlite.org/lockingv3.html#hot_journals