On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 10:57 PM, Keith Medcalf <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> As far as I can tell, the SQLite engine does an inorder traversal of the
> tree when doing a table scan (ie, from lowest to highest) returning rows in
> rowid order.
> While this is presently how SQLite works, it may not always be so.
>

Indeed, this will change in version 3.7.15 with the addition of a new
optimization that will scan covering indices instead of the original table,
when a covering index is available.  You can try it out by downloading and
compiling the tip of trunk, if you like.


-- 
D. Richard Hipp
[email protected]
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