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Retr0idtoday at 1:49 AM1 replyview on HN

The "3" refers to the file format (or rather, represents a breaking file format change vs 2), which the devs have committed to keep backward-compatible until 2050. https://sqlite.org/lts.html


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andrewchamberstoday at 1:56 AM

It also refers to what the binary on my PATH is called, also what the library name I need to pass to link against it.

They even had an sqlite4:

https://sqlite.org/src4/doc/trunk/www/design.wiki

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