lib,src,test: fix tests without SQLite #1554

Job	Run time
Build slim tarball	1m 32s
aarch64-linux: with shared libraries	30m 22s
x86_64-linux: with shared libraries	36m 33s
aarch64-darwin: with shared libraries	32m 54s
x86_64-darwin: with shared libraries	50m 43s
	2h 32m 4s

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