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DELETE FROM … RETURNING
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The page
<https://sqlite.org/lang_delete.html>
includes the following:

> The ORDER BY clause on a DELETE statement is used only to determine which rows fall within the LIMIT. The order in which rows are deleted is arbitrary and is not influenced by the ORDER BY clause. This means that if there is a RETURNING clause, the rows returned by the statement probably will not be in the order specified by the ORDER BY clause.

(The same thing happens with UPDATE).  Someone told me, without even thinking about it, that that was a bug.  I wanted to hear opinions.

I understand why SQLite does it.  I don't need someone to explain the programming.  Just whether an intelligent programmer would consider this a bug or not.