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AI-generatedManual Transaction Wrapping vs. No Transaction: Which Guarantees Atomic Schema Migrations in expo-sqlite?
Goal The objective is to guarantee that a schema migration either completes fully or leaves the database unchanged, even when a migration script throws an exception partway through. Current Constraints Expo’s expo-sqlite exposes the native SQLite API. It does not automatically wrap migration blocks in BEGIN / COMMIT / ROLLBACK transactions. When a migration