All rules Rule SL010 · TX
SQLite · alpha
warning
TX · Transactions
free in the CLI — --engine=sqlite

PRAGMA that is a no-op inside a transaction

Warning — it works, but holds the single write lock or breaks the previous release.

What it catches

PRAGMA foreign_keys and PRAGMA journal_mode do nothing while a transaction is open — SQLite does not error, it silently leaves the setting as it was. A rebuild that switches foreign keys off after BEGIN runs with them on, and everything SL009 warns about applies.

Fires on

BEGIN;
PRAGMA foreign_keys = OFF;
DROP TABLE orders;
COMMIT;

Do this instead

Issue the pragma before BEGIN (and re-enable after COMMIT). If the migration runner wraps every file in a transaction, the pragma has to be set by the runner itself.

PRAGMA foreign_keys = OFF;
BEGIN;
DROP TABLE orders;
COMMIT;
PRAGMA foreign_keys = ON;
Catch this before it ships

SQLite support is in alpha: this rule runs locally in the free CLI, static only, and not in the hosted service yet: npx bolvrk check migration.sql --engine=sqlite