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Collection of insane and fun facts about SQLite (avi.im)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Here's a fun fact not noted in the article: Temporary files in sqlite are named etilqs_something in order to prevent people from contacting the sqlite developers for support when other applications (specifically, McAfee) have decided dump and not prune temp files.

Source: https://github.com/sqlite/sqlite/blob/95f6df5b8d55e67d1e34d2bff217305a2f21b1fb/src/os.h#L57

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Here’s a fun fact not noted in the article:

It's #19 in the article.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Well, I can't read I guess.

At least I linked to the code, since the article doesn't seem to do that. The twitter thread it linked to probably does, but I can't view the replies without logging in.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

At least I linked to the code,

I appreciate that. :)