neither strictly nor strictly typed.

I think one of them should be “strongly”, but I understood your point.

Thinking back, I don’t have the doc easily accessible (on phone), but I think the C API state the type you want to read. Like get_int(smt, VALUE_INDEX, …), so at least in the C API, most of this should not be visible. Maybe only the SELECT 1 = '1' part (or others comparaison fully done in the SQL string)?

But they silently converted the string ‘1’ into the number 1. So now in my same code, I want to select back my stringy ‘1’ that I putted in the type affined INTEGER column.

And you are telling me its normal that I don’t get it back ? Or maybe I’m misunderstanding something?

Yup, pull requests are an invention from git’s servers (I think github came up with that first). The built in way (famously used by the linux kernel) is git-send-email.