Show HN: I created a library for correctly using SQLite in Go programs
Using SQLite in Go is deceptively easy. If you just import the popular github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3 as the database/sql driver implementation and start making queries, things will work great until you start hitting SQLITE_BUSY errors as traffic increases. Then you go down the same path of many gophers before you, finding GitHub and forum posts providing conflicting information on best practices for pragma values and connection handling. So I created https://github.com/cattlecloud/litesql Which pr
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Repository: cattlecloud/litesql. Source account: Using SQLite in Go is deceptively easy. If you just import the popular github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3 as the database/sql driver implementation and start making queries, things will work great until you start hitting SQLITE_BUSY errors as traffic increases. Then you go down the same path of many gophers before you, finding GitHub and forum posts providing conflicting information on best practices for pragma values and connection handling. So I created https://github.com/cattlecloud/litesql Which pr
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Source votes: 1 votes (Nov 11, 2026 UTC; cumulative since publication) Recent records to compare: “openai/codex-security” (GitHub Trending, Nov 11, 2026); “shadcn/improve” (GitHub Trending, Nov 11, 2026). Shared themes are navigation hints; they have not been verified as the same need or independent corroboration.
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