> this API was very much not available yet The sqlite3_complete() interface (or its pre-version-3 incarnation of "sqlite_complete()") has been available since the [very first check-in][1] of SQLite code on 2000-05-29. It's one of the first things I wrote, as it is important for the operation of the [CLI][2]. Perhaps it has not been sufficiently publicized... [1]: src:/info/6f3655f79f9b6fc9 [2]: https://sqlite.org/cli.html