"David G. Johnston" <david.g.johns...@gmail.com> writes: > On Friday, July 11, 2025, Zhang Mingli <zmlpostg...@gmail.com> wrote: >> So, are both result sets technically correct given the absence of an ORDER >> BY clause?
> The system is behaving within the requirements of the specification. The > query itself is bugged code that the query author should fix. Well, it's our own regression-test query. I think the actual question being asked here is "do our regression tests need to pass under random non-default GUC settings?". I'd say no; it'd be next door to impossible to guarantee that. If this query gave unstable results in practice, we'd have noticed by now (it's been there since 2010). regards, tom lane