Comment by sgbeal

> The fact that they didn’t make STRICT default is really a shame.

SQLite makes strong backwards-compatibility guarantees. How many apps would be broken if an Android update suddenly defaulted its internal copy of SQLite to STRICT? Or if it decided to turn on foreign keys by default?

Those are rhetorical questions. Any non-0 percentage of affected applications adds up to a big number for software with SQLite's footprint.

Software pulling the proverbial rug out from under downstream developers by making incompatible changes is one of the unfortunate evils of software development, but the SQLite project makes every effort to ensure that SQLite doesn't do any rug-tugging.