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SQLITE_ERROR_RETRYINFOTier 1 — Safe⚠️ MEDIUM confidence

Internal retry signal (not user-facing)

Category: InternalVersions: 3.29.0+

🔴 Production Risk Error

None — internal only.

What this means

SQLITE_ERROR_RETRY (513) is an internal extended code used by SQLite to signal that a prepared statement should be reprepared and retried. It is not returned to application code.

Why it happens

  1. 1Schema changed between prepare and step; SQLite reprepares automatically.

How to reproduce

Internal use only — SQLite reprepares stale statements.

trigger — this will ERROR
# Not directly visible to application code
# SQLite uses this internally to trigger automatic reprepare on schema change
Not surfaced to application — SQLite handles it internally.

Fix 1

Why this works

No fix needed — this is an internal signal only.

Version notes

Sources

📚 Official docs: https://www.sqlite.org/rescode.html#error_retry

🔧 Source ref: sqlite3.h — SQLITE_ERROR_RETRY = 513

Confidence assessment

⚠️ MEDIUM confidence

Stable — internal use only.

See also

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