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Document tuple ordering differences as a possible cause of
regression test 'failures'.
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@ -166,6 +166,31 @@ statements where these problems occur are the following:
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SELECT * from street;
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SELECT * from iexit;
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Tuple ordering differences
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You might see differences in which the same tuples are output in a
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different order than what appears in the expected file. In most cases
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this is not, strictly speaking, a bug. Most of the regression test
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scripts are not so pedantic as to use an ORDER BY for every single
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SELECT, and so their result tuple orderings are not well-defined
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according to the letter of the SQL spec. In practice, since we are
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looking at the same queries being executed on the same data by the same
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software, we usually get the same result ordering on all platforms, and
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so the lack of ORDER BY isn't a problem. Some queries do exhibit
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cross-platform ordering differences, however.
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Therefore, if you see an ordering difference, it's not something to
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worry about (unless the query does have an ORDER BY that your result
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is violating). But please report it anyway, so that we can add an
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ORDER BY to that particular query and thereby eliminate the bogus
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"failure" in future releases.
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You might wonder why we don't ORDER all the regress test SELECTs to
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get rid of this issue once and for all. The reason is that that would
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make the regression tests less useful, not more, since they'd tend
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to exercise query plan types that produce ordered results to the
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exclusion of those that don't.
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The "random" test
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There is at least one case in the "random" test script that is
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