Simon, Tim, Il sab 2 feb 2019, 23:40 Simon Slavin <slav...@bigfraud.org> ha scritto:
> On 2 Feb 2019, at 10:19pm, Gerlando Falauto <gerlando.fala...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Results should be naturally ordered by source1, source2,ts. > > [Sorry, I missed this the first time. Thanks, Tim.] > > Sorry, no. You're making assumptions about how SQLite works internally. > If you want your results sorted, ask for them sorted. If you don't, don't. > I do want them sorted, and I also want the whole (huge) dataset to be processable without having to store it all in memory or temp files. Sounds like the whole purpose of an index, doesn't it? I do know SQL is all about the result, not how it's obtained, though. > Note that if you don't ask for them sorted and they come out sorted by > good luck, there's no guarantee that they'll be sorted if you put different > data in the table, or the same data with the rows in a different order, or > if you update to a later version of SQLite. > I do realize that, that's why I'm not happy with that seems to do the trick without an explicit order by clause. Thank you for your help! Gerlando > > Simon. > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org > http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
