To quote the function's comment:
Awful hack to handle timeouts in SQLite: just retry the transaction.
DBD::SQLite *has* a 30 second retry window, but apparently it
doesn't work.
Since SQLite is now dropped entirely, this wrapper can be removed
completely.
There is still a tiny window between the calls to nix-prefetch-* and
addTempRoot. This could be eliminated by adding a "-o" option to
nix-prefetch-*, or by not using those scripts at all (and use
addToStore directly).