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> SQLite corruption is possible, but it’s highly unusual and not something you should encounter in normal operation

If there's a hardware failure, for example a flaky SD card, it's not out of the question. A mobile app with a lot of usage will see it.

(Yes, I know this appears to be a server use case.)

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The sentence you’ve quoted actually links to a list of ways to corrupt SQLite, which I think is interesting in its own right: https://www.sqlite.org/howtocorrupt.html

I believe your flaky SD card is category 4, Disk Drive and Flash Memory Failures.

I have encountered this exactly once, and it was in fact a flaky SD card - running a small web service off of a raspberry pi, with the SQLite DB stored on the SD.

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