lib,src,test: fix tests without SQLite #1467

Job	Run time
Build slim tarball	1m 32s
x86_64-linux: with shared libraries	39m 27s
aarch64-linux: with shared libraries	36m 0s
aarch64-darwin: with shared libraries	1h 1m 8s
x86_64-darwin: with shared libraries	1h 16m 9s
	3h 34m 16s

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