Avoid a spurious corruption report in some cases when processing an ORDER BY .. NULLS LAST query against a WITHOUT ROWID table that has had columns added to it using ALTER TABLE. Forum post [forum:2026-10-15T03:54:19Z | 2026-10-15T03:54:19Z].

FossilOrigin-Name: a2a20c54a2ce7a43a253f496210e8ff39215cd18b17895b62ef963fe449f3ab2

manifest

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-C Fix\sDEFAULT\sso\sthat\sBLOB\svalues\scast\sto\stext\suse\sthe\sdatabase\sencoding.\n[bugs:/info/2026-10-14T17:33:12Z|Bug\s2026-10-14T17:33:12Z].
-D 2026-10-15T17:36:23.562
+C Avoid\sa\sspurious\scorruption\sreport\sin\ssome\scases\swhen\sprocessing\san\sORDER\sBY\s..\sNULLS\sLAST\squery\sagainst\sa\sWITHOUT\sROWID\stable\sthat\shas\shad\scolumns\sadded\sto\sit\susing\sALTER\sTABLE.\sForum\spost\s[forum:2026-10-15T03:54:19Z\s|\s2026-10-15T03:54:19Z].
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@@ -886,7 +886,7 @@ F src/vxworks.h 9d18819c5235b49c2340a8a4d48195ec5d5afb637b152406de95a9436beeaeab
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-F src/where.c 5b68fdbca9b0e636bf84274f3e30a1bafcc91bb8f79590c36647c343669b9952
+F src/where.c b297e416518ffd2b2a7ab91b7f3abadc61f7d95065b3a1e745f2d53df7077d5b
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@@ -1550,7 +1550,7 @@ F test/notnull.test a37b663d5bb728d66fc182016613fb8e4a0a4bbf3d75b8876a7527f7d4ed
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-F test/nulls1.test b21d95f5a9b688b147478429293606d558bb29fce4dcfa983da2b098aec3a896
+F test/nulls1.test 0cd06a7f65c7c07c618388cc0c8bd58ce57c4ffe2efc7caea142059ac643038f
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@@ -2290,8 +2290,8 @@ F tool/warnings-clang.sh bbf6a1e685e534c92ec2bfba5b1745f34fb6f0bc2a362850723a9ee
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 # Remove this line to create a well-formed Fossil manifest.

manifest.uuid

@@ -1 +1 @@
-178677e14188117aada456fb068f6c9c6acf577ff6ebb211303e9227dd874e8f
+a2a20c54a2ce7a43a253f496210e8ff39215cd18b17895b62ef963fe449f3ab2

src/where.c

@@ -5457,7 +5457,14 @@ static i8 wherePathSatisfiesOrderBy(
           }
         }
         if( isMatch && (pOrderBy->a[i].fg.sortFlags & KEYINFO_ORDER_BIGNULL) ){
-          if( j==pLoop->u.btree.nEq ){
+          if( j==pLoop->u.btree.nEq 
+           && (HasRowid(pIndex->pTable)||!IsPrimaryKeyIndex(pIndex)||j<nKeyCol)
+          ){
+            /* If this is the PK of a WITHOUT ROWID table, do not use any
+            ** field past nKeyCol for a NULLS LAST sort. If ALTER TABLE has
+            ** been used to add columns to the table, this field may not
+            ** be present in all records, which causes problems for the seeks
+            ** used by NULLS LAST sorts.  */
             pLoop->wsFlags |= WHERE_BIGNULL_SORT;
           }else{
             isMatch = 0;

test/nulls1.test

@@ -416,6 +416,36 @@ do_execsql_test 12.9 {
   SELECT DISTINCT c0 FROM t0 INDEXED BY i0 ORDER BY c0 ASC NULLS LAST;
 } {A {}}
 
+#-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Report <https://sqlite.org/bugs/forumpost/d459ae35bd>
+#
+reset_db
+
+do_execsql_test 13.0 {
+  CREATE TABLE t1(a PRIMARY KEY) WITHOUT ROWID;
+  INSERT INTO t1 VALUES(1.5);
+  ALTER TABLE t1 ADD COLUMN b;
+  PRAGMA integrity_check;
+} {ok}
+
+do_execsql_test 13.1 {
+  SELECT * FROM t1 WHERE a IN (1.5, 'myval2') ORDER BY b NULLS LAST;
+} {1.5 {}}
+
+do_execsql_test 13.2 {
+  SELECT * FROM t1 WHERE a = 1.5 AND b IS NULL;
+} {1.5 {}}
+
+do_execsql_test 13.3 {
+  CREATE TABLE t2(a PRIMARY KEY) WITHOUT ROWID;
+  INSERT INTO t2 VALUES(1), (2);
+  ALTER TABLE t2 ADD COLUMN b DEFAULT 5;
+  INSERT INTO t2 VALUES(3, NULL);
+}
+
+do_execsql_test 13.4 {
+  SELECT * FROM t2 WHERE a IN (1, 2, 3) ORDER BY b NULLS LAST;
+} {1 5 2 5 3 {}}
 
 
 finish_test