Yeah, that's right.  That makes sense.  I was going to try to read the
bytes in and display the version but I'm too tired.
But seems like that's the culprit of the issue.
There might be a way of turning that off.

On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 11:31 PM, Zsolt Vasvari <[email protected]> wrote:
> This is what the end of the article says:
>
> "To prevent older versions of SQLite from trying to recover a WAL-mode
> database (and making matters worse) the database file format version
> numbers (bytes 18 and 19 in the database header) are increased from 1
> to 2 in WAL mode. Thus, if an older version of SQLite attempts to
> connect to an SQLite database that is operating in WAL mode, it will
> report an error along the lines of "file is encrypted or is not a
> database".
>
> To me that means that they deliberately preventing the DB to be opened
> in pre-WAL versions, regardless if it's crashed or not.
>
>
>
> On Aug 4, 2:22 pm, Miguel Morales <[email protected]> wrote:
>> It's still possible despite that, read the link I posted.
>> If the file was in some sort of unfinished operation where the write
>> ahead log it will change the file format.
>> The file would still be readable by 3.7 by not by anything below.
>>
>> Read the file to determine its version.  Or send it over to the sqlite
>> people as this appears not to be the expected behavior.
>> Also, how is this database populated?  Via java code or through the
>> sqlite command line?
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 11:14 PM, Zsolt Vasvari <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> Seems that something happened with that file, or it was in the middle
>> >> of an operation or something.
>>
>> > No, it wasn't.  This is reproducible 100% of the time and the file is
>> > not corrupted as it's openable and readable by 3.7.
>>
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