In the code below, pathToNonDatabase is the path to a simple text file, not a real sqlite database. I was hoping for sqlite3_open to detect that, but it doesn't (db is not NULL, and result is SQLITE_OK). So, how to detect that a file is not a valid sqlite database?
sqlite3 *db = NULL;
int result = sqlite3_open(pathToNonDatabase, &db);
if((NULL==db) || (result!=SQLITE_OK)) {
// invalid database
}