Articles like this leave me with an uneasy feeling that the “solutions” are just blind workarounds - more debugging/research should be able to expose exactly what the problem is, now that would be something worth sharing.
Articles like this give me the feeling that the author did a little bit of research and shared a suboptimal solution, and was hoping that experts on HN would present better solutions. Wasn't there a saying about how the best way to get correct answers is to post not just the question but the wrong answers to it?
If something is stupid but it works then it is not stupid. If this will help them find a solution then sure why not. Though I am wondering if this would not be easier to just use postgress and focus on features instead.
I am pretty sure in this case even Claude or ChatGPT would give them the correct answer quickly or at least it would point them to the right direction (the busy-timeout pragma) with 5 minutes of work.