• Sources: mort.coffee, HN discussion
  • Summary: A blog post argues SQLite should add an opt-in edition mechanism, modeled on Rust editions, so that behavior-changing fixes and stricter defaults could ship without breaking existing databases and queries that depend on current quirks. The author frames it as a way to evolve long-standing compatibility compromises while keeping SQLite's stability guarantee. This is a third-party proposal, not a SQLite project plan.
  • Why it matters: SQLite's strict backward compatibility blocks some correctness fixes, and an edition mechanism is one path to change defaults without breaking the deployed base.

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