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Comment:Merge the 3.10.1 documentation changes. Update the change log for 3.11.0.
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User & Date: drh 2016-01-14 15:48:09.964
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2016-01-14
15:52
Remove the AWK dependency from the amalgamation page. (check-in: fbbbdbca17 user: drh tags: trunk)
15:48
Merge the 3.10.1 documentation changes. Update the change log for 3.11.0. (check-in: e9bf814a4d user: drh tags: trunk)
2016-01-13
21:46
Add the release hashes to the change log for 3.10.1. (check-in: 9c12cf4cea user: drh tags: branch-3.10)
20:52
Add documentation for the fts5 detail= option. (check-in: 08f6990b8a user: dan tags: trunk)
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<p><b>General improvements:</b>
<li>Enhanced [WAL mode] so that it works efficiently with transactions that are
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<p><b>General improvements:</b>
<li>Added support for [LIKE], [GLOB], and [REGEXP] operators on [virtual tables].
<li>Added the [colUsed field] to [sqlite3_index_info] for use by
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chng {2016-03-00 (3.11.0)} {
<p><b>General improvements:</b>
<li>Enhanced [WAL mode] so that it works efficiently with transactions that are
    larger than the [cache_size].
<li>Added the [FTS5 detail option].
<li>Various performance optimizations.
<p><b>Enhancements to the [command-line shell]:</b>
<li>Added the ".vfslist" [dot-commands|dot-command].
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chng {2016-01-14 (3.10.1)} {
<p><b>New feature:</b>
<li>Add the [SQLITE_FCNTL_JOURNAL_POINTER] file control.
<p><b>Bug fix:</b>
<li>Fix a 16-month-old bug in the query planner that could generate incorrect results
    when a scalar subquery attempts to use the [block sorting] optimization.  Ticket
    [https://www.sqlite.org/src/info/cb3aa0641d9a4|cb3aa0641d9a4].
<p><b>Hashes:</b>
<li>SQLITE_SOURCE_ID: "2016-01-13 21:41:56 254419c36766225ca542ae873ed38255e3fb8588"
<li>SHA1 for sqlite3.c: 1398ba8e4043550a533cdd0834bfdad1c9eab0f4
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chng {2016-01-06 (3.10.0)} {
<p><b>General improvements:</b>
<li>Added support for [LIKE], [GLOB], and [REGEXP] operators on [virtual tables].
<li>Added the [colUsed field] to [sqlite3_index_info] for use by
    the [sqlite3_module.xBestIndex] method.
<li>Enhance the [PRAGMA cache_spill] statement to accept a 32-bit integer
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<p>SQLite [version 3.10.0] is a regularly scheduled maintenance release.
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newsitem {2016-01-14} {Release 3.10.1} {
<p>SQLite [version 3.10.1] is a bug-fix release primarily targeting the
fix for the query planner bug
[https://www.sqlite.org/src/info/cb3aa0641d9a4|cb3aa0641d9a4] discovered by
Mapscape.  Also included is a minor API enhancement requested by
the Firefox developers at Mozilla.  The differences from version 
3.10.0 are minimal.
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newsitem {2016-01-06} {Release 3.10.0} {
<p>SQLite [version 3.10.0] is a regularly scheduled maintenance release.
}

newsitem {2015-11-02} {Release 3.9.2} {
<p>SQLite [version 3.9.2] is a patch release fixing two obscure bugs.
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<p>
The same basic algorithm is followed, except this time the matching rows
of the index are scanned from bottom to top instead of from top to bottom,
so that the states will appear in descending order.
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<tcl>hd_fragment {partialsort} {partial sorting by index}</tcl>
<h3>3.2 Partial Sorting Using An Index</h3>

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Sometimes only part of an ORDER BY clause can be satisfied using indexes.
Consider, for example, the following query:
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<p>
The same basic algorithm is followed, except this time the matching rows
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so that the states will appear in descending order.
</p>

<tcl>hd_fragment {partialsort} {partial sorting by index} {block sorting}</tcl>
<h3>3.2 Partial Sorting Using An Index (a.k.a. Block Sorting)</h3>

<p>
Sometimes only part of an ORDER BY clause can be satisfied using indexes.
Consider, for example, the following query:
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