On 1/11/17, Richard Hipp <d...@sqlite.org> wrote: > > If you omit the ORDER BY clause, then the SQL database engine (*any* > engine, not just SQLite) is free to return the rows in whatever random > order it chooses. And it does not need to explain itself when it > does. :-) >
For years I have threatened to make it a feature of SQLite that it really does output the rows in some random order if you omit the ORDER BY clause - specifically to expose the common bug of omitting the ORDER BY clause when the order matters. I have so far resisted that impulse because it makes testing harder. But this email thread makes me think that such a feature really would be worth the trouble of adding. -- D. Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
