[0xcde4c3db]

At some point, such local usages were sufficiently non-niche that the temp file extension was changed from "sqlite" to "etilqs" to stem the flood of angry emails about local application databases taking up too much disk space.

(cf. Daniel Stenberg getting angry emails because everybody and their dog embeds libcurl, sometimes multiple times in the same app)

[simonw]

Here's the commit from 18 years ago explaining that change: https://github.com/sqlite/sqlite/commit/fd288f3549a1ab9a309a...

    ** 2006-10-31:  The default prefix used to be "sqlite_".  But then
    ** Mcafee started using SQLite in their anti-virus product and it
    ** started putting files with the "sqlite" name in the c:/temp folder.
    ** This annoyed many windows users.  Those users would then do a 
    ** Google search for "sqlite", find the telephone numbers of the
    ** developers and call to wake them up at night and complain.
    ** For this reason, the default name prefix is changed to be "sqlite" 
    ** spelled backwards.  So the temp files are still identified, but
    ** anybody smart enough to figure out the code is also likely smart
    ** enough to know that calling the developer will not help get rid
    ** of the file.