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SQLITE_IOERR_DELETE_NOENT
SQLiteINFOCommonI/O Errorofficial confidence

I/O error deleting non-existent file

Production Risk

None — informational in most cases.

What this means

SQLITE_IOERR_DELETE_NOENT (5898) is a sub-code of SQLITE_IOERR_DELETE returned when SQLite tries to delete a journal or WAL file that no longer exists. This is generally harmless.

Why it happens
  1. 1Another process already deleted the journal file.
  2. 2Journal file was never created (empty transaction).
How to reproduce

Post-commit journal cleanup when the journal file is already gone.

trigger — this will error
trigger — this will error
# Journal file already deleted by another process or OS
# → SQLITE_IOERR_DELETE_NOENT (benign)

expected output

No visible error in most drivers; logged at IOERR level.

Fix

Sources
Official documentation ↗

sqlite3.h — SQLITE_IOERR_DELETE_NOENT = 5898

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