Liane Praza writes:
> I don't inherently cringe.  (Others might, but they can speak for 
> themselves.)  It's the fact that sqlite3 has an entirely different 
> library API, plus the extensive retesting that would be required that's 
> kept us from prioritizing the work since there would be no 
> administratively visible benefit from the switch.  But, I have no reason 
> to discourage someone from exploring it.

Having fewer copies would be a benefit, though I agree that (other
than patching) it'd be hard for an admin to see that.

> (SMF's not the only consumer of sqlite2 in ON though, I thought. 
> Removing SMF's use wouldn't change the other consumers' needs.)

The only other one that does the libsqlite.o reach-around is idmapd,
and in the review for PSARC 2006/315, they said they were using it
because SMF was using it.

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