I do not see how you mean this. If the rowid of some record is greater than the rowid of some other record, then the rowid with the greater numerical rowid was added chronologically subsequent to the row with the lesser rowid unless you set the rowid's manually, in which case the "autoincrement" keyword makes no difference. The only difference is the change that "one more than the current max rowid" beccomes "one more that the maximum rowid ever" and that if you run out of positive 64-bit signed integers you get an "out of space" error rather than trying to find an ununsed rowid before returning an error. Save "user specified rowids" a greater rowid always means a later insert chronologically than all the other rowids that exist in the table.