Reading up on Richard Hipp
2 deep · digging since aug 13
- Tracking down the 16-year-old WAL-reset SQLite bug
Researchers uncovered a 16‑year‑old bug in SQLite’s WAL‑reset handling that could cause database corruption during routine checkpoint sequences and affect performance.
- How Tailscale helped find the SQLite WAL-Reset bug
Tailscale engineers and SQLite developers collaborated to identify and fix a rare data race bug in SQLite's WAL checkpointing that caused months of database corruption in Tailscale's control plane.