diff --git a/toolkit/components/url-classifier/src/Makefile.in b/toolkit/components/url-classifier/src/Makefile.in
index 1887795cd5b9..8513f8fa7608 100644
--- a/toolkit/components/url-classifier/src/Makefile.in
+++ b/toolkit/components/url-classifier/src/Makefile.in
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ CPPSRCS = \
 
 LOCAL_INCLUDES = \
                  -I$(srcdir)/../../build \
+                 $(SQLITE_CFLAGS) \
                  $(NULL)
 
 
diff --git a/toolkit/components/url-classifier/src/nsUrlClassifierDBService.cpp b/toolkit/components/url-classifier/src/nsUrlClassifierDBService.cpp
index f4541455cae4..6ae7b105afe3 100644
--- a/toolkit/components/url-classifier/src/nsUrlClassifierDBService.cpp
+++ b/toolkit/components/url-classifier/src/nsUrlClassifierDBService.cpp
@@ -77,6 +77,9 @@
 #include "prnetdb.h"
 #include "zlib.h"
 
+// Needed to interpert mozIStorageConnection::GetLastError
+#include <sqlite3.h>
+
 /**
  * The DBServices stores a set of Fragments.  A fragment is one URL
  * fragment containing two or more domain components and some number
@@ -3056,6 +3059,11 @@ nsUrlClassifierDBServiceWorker::FinishUpdate()
   NS_ENSURE_STATE(!mInStream);
   NS_ENSURE_STATE(mUpdateObserver);
 
+  // We need to get the error code before ApplyUpdate, because it might
+  // close/open the connection.
+  PRInt32 errcode = SQLITE_OK;
+  mConnection->GetLastError(&errcode);
+
   ApplyUpdate();
 
   if (NS_SUCCEEDED(mUpdateStatus)) {
@@ -3064,7 +3072,13 @@ nsUrlClassifierDBServiceWorker::FinishUpdate()
     mUpdateObserver->UpdateError(mUpdateStatus);
   }
 
-  if (!mResetRequested) {
+  // It's important that we only reset the database on an update
+  // command if the update was successful, otherwise unauthenticated
+  // updates could cause a database reset.
+  PRBool resetDB = (NS_SUCCEEDED(mUpdateStatus) && mResetRequested) ||
+                    errcode == SQLITE_CORRUPT;
+
+  if (!resetDB) {
     if (NS_SUCCEEDED(mUpdateStatus)) {
       PRInt64 now = (PR_Now() / PR_USEC_PER_SEC);
       for (PRUint32 i = 0; i < mUpdateTables.Length(); i++) {
@@ -3079,15 +3093,9 @@ nsUrlClassifierDBServiceWorker::FinishUpdate()
     }
   }
 
-  // ResetUpdate() clears mResetRequested...
-  PRBool resetRequested = mResetRequested;
-
   ResetUpdate();
 
-  // It's important that we only reset the database if the update was
-  // successful, otherwise unauthenticated updates could cause a
-  // database reset.
-  if (NS_SUCCEEDED(mUpdateStatus) && resetRequested) {
+  if (resetDB) {
     ResetDatabase();
   }