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Comment:There are "hundreds of billions", not "tens of billions" of SQLite database files in circulation - in the rowidtable.html document.
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User & Date: drh 2018-04-12 15:31:42.109
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2018-04-12
17:04
Fix a typo on the optoverview.html document. (check-in: 5272d8d61d user: drh tags: trunk)
15:31
There are "hundreds of billions", not "tens of billions" of SQLite database files in circulation - in the rowidtable.html document. (check-in: c34168d55b user: drh tags: trunk)
14:47
Tweaks to the whynotgit.html page. (check-in: 149486cfb5 user: drh tags: trunk)
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[variable-length integer].  That means that small non-negative
rowid values take up less disk space than large or negative
rowid values.

<li><p>
All of the complications above (and others not mentioned here)
arise from the need to preserve backwards
compatibility to the tens of billions of SQLite database files in
circulation.  In a perfect world, there would be no such thing as a "rowid"
and all tables would following the standard semantics implemented as
[WITHOUT ROWID] tables, only without the extra "WITHOUT ROWID" keywords.
Unfortunately, life is messy.  The designer of SQLite offers his
sincere apology for the current mess.
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[variable-length integer].  That means that small non-negative
rowid values take up less disk space than large or negative
rowid values.

<li><p>
All of the complications above (and others not mentioned here)
arise from the need to preserve backwards
compatibility for the hundreds of billions of SQLite database files in
circulation.  In a perfect world, there would be no such thing as a "rowid"
and all tables would following the standard semantics implemented as
[WITHOUT ROWID] tables, only without the extra "WITHOUT ROWID" keywords.
Unfortunately, life is messy.  The designer of SQLite offers his
sincere apology for the current mess.
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