On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 04:38:41PM -0500, Carlos Paz wrote:
> listing, and unless you have defined a primary key (see Day 10,
> "Creating Views and Indexes"), your query comes out in the order the
> rows were entered."
>
> I wonder if I can trust on this feature with "insert into x select .."
> and expect "insert into x values..." compliment in newer releases or
> I'll need to use the extra column workaround ?
I don't think any application should ever have trusted this, unless
the DB docs specifically stated that they will guarantee it. All of
the documentation for MySQL reads that you are not guaranteed any
order unless you specify an ORDER BY clause.
For MySQL to guarantee this they'd have to store that order somewhere,
or else be really limited in how they handle the data, thus hurting
performance. I don't want them to do that.
Tim
