lib,src,test: fix tests without SQLite #1496

Job	Run time
Build slim tarball	1m 35s
x86_64-darwin: with shared libraries	1h 6m 53s
x86_64-linux: with shared libraries	35m 15s
aarch64-linux: with shared libraries	30m 7s
aarch64-darwin: with shared libraries	34m 14s
	2h 48m 4s

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