On Apr 25, 2011, at 7:57 AM, Nico Williams wrote: > For group_concat(), however, this undefined order is > obnoxious.
Seconded. As it stands, group_concat nondeterministic nature renders it useless for most practical purposes. For what's worth, here is the syntax adopted by Oracle for its LISTAGG function [1]: LISTAGG( expression, delimiter ) WITHIN GROUP ( ORDER BY clause ) As group_concat already supports 'distinct', perhaps tagging 'order by' at the end of the expression would not be that bad: GROUP_CONCAT( DISTINCT expression ORDER BY clause, delimiter ) EIther way, irrespectively of syntax, group_concat would greatly benefit from a deterministic ordering :)) [1] http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E14072_01/server.112/e10592/functions087.htm _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
