SQLITE_ROWSUCCESSTier 1 — Safe⚠️ MEDIUM confidence

sqlite3_step() has another row ready

Category: Step ResultVersions: 3.0+

🔴 Production Risk Error

None — success code.

What this means

SQLITE_ROW (100) is returned by sqlite3_step() each time a new row of data is ready to be read from a SELECT statement. The calling code should call sqlite3_column_*() to retrieve the row data, then call sqlite3_step() again for the next row.

Why it happens

1Not an error — indicates a row is available.

How to reproduce

Returned by sqlite3_step() for each row of a SELECT result set.

trigger — this will ERROR

import sqlite3
conn = sqlite3.connect(':memory:')
conn.execute('CREATE TABLE t(x)')
conn.executemany('INSERT INTO t VALUES(?)', [(1,),(2,),(3,)])
for row in conn.execute('SELECT x FROM t'):
    print(row)  # Python driver calls step() internally

(1,) (2,) (3,)

Fix 1

Why this works

No fix needed — SQLITE_ROW is the expected return value while iterating rows.

Sources

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

🔧 Source ref: sqlite3.h — SQLITE_ROW = 100

📖 Further reading: sqlite3_step()

Confidence assessment

⚠️ MEDIUM confidence

Stable.