I suppose the choice comes down to either PHP splitting the DB access (like other languages) or PostgreSQL splitting out pl/PHP.
Most major distributions (Fedora Core, Debian, Redhat) splits core php and database-access in different packages. Might be that sqlite is core, that newer php that have that change also bundles libsqlite.
php php-mysql php-pgsql ...
regards, Robin
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