Hacker News with Generative AI: Data Integrity

Things that go wrong with disk IO (eatonphil.com)
There are a few interesting scenarios to keep in mind when writing applications (not just databases!) that read and write files, particularly in transactional contexts where you actually care about the integrity of the data and when you are editing data in place (versus copy-on-write for example).
Comment on 2015 mRNA paper suggests data re-used in different contexts (pubpeer.com)
SQLite does not do checksums (avi.im)
SQLite does not do checksums by default. I learned this from Alex Miller. What does this mean? If there is disk corruption, the database or application won’t be able to know that the database is ‘corrupt’.