lib,src,test: fix tests without SQLite #1501

Job	Run time
Build slim tarball	1m 35s
x86_64-linux: with shared libraries	1h 17m 48s
x86_64-darwin: with shared libraries	3h 48m 32s
aarch64-darwin: with shared libraries	41m 6s
aarch64-linux: with shared libraries	1h 13m 22s
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