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Patch react-native-nitro-sqlite so failed ROLLBACKs stop masking real SQLite errors - #97954

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Patch react-native-nitro-sqlite so failed ROLLBACKs stop masking real SQLite errors#97954
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Explanation of Change

Adds a patch-package patch to react-native-nitro-sqlite@9.6.0 so a failed ROLLBACK no longer masks the original SQLite error in the batch-write path (the path react-native-onyx uses for every write).

The bug: when a statement inside executeBatch fails and SQLite has already auto-rolled the transaction back (which disk-full I/O errors do), the library's own ROLLBACK fails with cannot rollback - no transaction is active — and that error is thrown instead of the original one. In production this hides the real failure: we log ~2,800 cannot rollback - no transaction is active lines per day (iOS), none of which say what actually broke. After this patch those surface as the true underlying errors (e.g. disk I/O error, database or disk is full), which the disk-pressure classification in Expensify/react-native-onyx#816 then handles with throttled alerts and free-disk telemetry instead of blind retries.

The patch mirrors the fix upstream already shipped in 9.7.0 (margelo/react-native-nitro-sqlite#292): wrap the two ROLLBACK calls in try/catch and rethrow the original exception.

Why a patch instead of bumping to 9.7.0 (this PR originally bumped; deliberately reverted):

  1. 9.7.0 force-enables a thread-unsafe SQLite build on iOS. Its podspec hardcodes performance_mode = 1-DSQLITE_THREADSAFE=0 (all SQLite mutexes compiled out), with no opt-out. On 9.6.0 this never actually applied — the podspec compared the int 1 against the string '1', so the flag block was dead code and we've been shipping SQLite's default thread-safe build all along. 9.7.0 fixes that comparison, so the bump silently flips production iOS to a mutex-free SQLite.
  2. 9.7.0 breaks second opens of the same database. It adds a JS-side per-database operation queue whose open() throws Database OnyxDB is already open — and src/libs/ExportOnyxState/index.native.ts opens OnyxDB a second time (alongside Onyx's own connection) to export state. That call throws on 9.7.0.

The patch delivers the one behavior we need now with zero build-flag or API changes. The bump can follow once upstream makes performance_mode configurable (its own TODO says it should be) and our double-open in ExportOnyxState is reworked.

Fixed Issues

$ #97908
PROPOSAL: N/A (dependency patch surfacing masked SQLite errors; part of the disk-pressure work in #97908, symptom tracked in #87869)

Automated Tests

None added here — this PR only patches the dependency's native error propagation. The classification behavior that consumes the now-unmasked errors is tested in the paired onyx PR (Expensify/react-native-onyx#816, tests/unit/onyxUtilsTest.ts and tests/unit/storage/providers/SQLiteProviderTest.ts).

Tests

Regression smoke — the patch only changes which error is thrown when a batch write fails; success paths are untouched:

  1. Sign in and use the app normally on iOS: open a report, create an expense, send a message.
  2. Kill and relaunch the app — verify all data loads correctly.
  3. Create an expense with a receipt photo — verify it persists after relaunch (exercises the batch-write path).
  4. Verify no crashes or console errors during normal usage.
  • Verify that no errors appear in the JS console

Offline tests

  1. Go offline, send a message and create an expense, kill and relaunch the app — verify the offline changes are still there and sync when back online.

QA Steps

Same as Tests.

  • Verify that no errors appear in the JS console

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⚠️ This PR is possibly changing native code and/or updating libraries, it may cause problems with HybridApp. Please check if any patch updates are required in the HybridApp repo and run an AdHoc build to verify that HybridApp will not break. Ask Contributor Plus for help if you are not sure how to handle this. ⚠️

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@elirangoshen elirangoshen changed the title Bump react-native-nitro-sqlite to 9.7.0 to stop rollback failures masking real SQLite errors Patch react-native-nitro-sqlite so failed ROLLBACKs stop masking real SQLite errors Aug 6, 2026
… error

When a batch statement fails and SQLite has already auto-rolled the
transaction back (disk-full I/O errors do this), the library's own ROLLBACK
throws 'cannot rollback - no transaction is active' and replaces the real
error (~2.8k masked lines/day on iOS). Swallow the rollback failure and
rethrow the original. Patch over 9.6.0 instead of bumping to 9.7.0 because
9.7.0 force-enables SQLITE_THREADSAFE=0 on iOS and breaks double-open.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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LGTM!

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✋ This PR was not deployed to staging yet because QA is ongoing. It will be automatically deployed to staging after the next production release.

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🚀 Deployed to staging by https://github.com/Julesssss in version: 9.4.52-0 🚀

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🤖 android 🤖 success ✅
🍎 iOS 🍎 cancelled 🔪

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