On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 1:43 PM, Simon Slavin <slav...@bigfraud.org> wrote:
>
> On 28 Oct 2014, at 7:33pm, James Earl <ja...@truckhardware.ca> wrote:
>
>> After upgrading from SQLite 3.8.6 to 3.8.7, I am no longer able to
>> order group_concat values by using a subselect.
>
> Sorry, but as the documentation says
>
> <https://www.sqlite.org/lang_aggfunc.html>
>
> "The order of the concatenated elements is arbitrary."
>
> I think the change you're seeing is the result of improved optimisation in 
> 3.8.7.  It might be possible to get the order you want by changing the 
> phrasing of your query from a sub-select to JOIN, but it's already 
> complicated and I can't figure out the right phrasing right now.

Thank you Simon.  It was a nice hack while it worked!  I don't mind
doing things differently.

James
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