Yeah, managing to do that is ... almost impressive. The more common failure mode I've seen is a library bundling and inlining an old version of a database API

Yeah, managing to do that is ... almost impressive. The more common failure mode I've seen is a library bundling and inlining an old version of a database API in a way that means it overrides the shared object I was expecting my code to link to, and alarums and excursions resulting thereby. (I don't imagine SQLite would -break- in that situation, but I doubt my application code would be any less unhappy than in the cases of that problem I've encountered in the wild)