On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Nico Williams <n...@cryptonector.com>wrote:
> So, if I understand section 3.2 of the SQLite4 design page then it > will often be the case that lookup keys will not be stored in an order > that will be useful for optimizing common ORDER BY expressions. Is > this correct? Not correct. The keys are encoded (see http://www.sqlite.org/src4/doc/trunk/www/key_encoding.wiki) in a way that causes a lexicographical ordering of the keys to correspond to what the user wants out of ORDER BY. So indices can still be used for fulfilling ORDER BY. > If so, is this worth the trade-off for the single > key/value storage complexity? Or is this wrong because the key > comparison function to be used will be aware of of data typing in the > encoding of the keys? > > Nico > -- > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@sqlite.org > http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > -- D. Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
