Re: [Question] Window Function Results without ORDER BY Clause

2025-07-13 Thread Zhang Mingli
On Jul 11, 2025 at 23:57 +0800, Tom Lane , wrote: > "David G. Johnston" writes: > > On Friday, July 11, 2025, Zhang Mingli 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 specific

Re: [Question] Window Function Results without ORDER BY Clause

2025-07-11 Thread DINESH NAIR
the ORDER BY clause on windows function, were the regression test results become deterministic. Thanks in advance Dinesh From: Tom Lane Sent: Friday, July 11, 2025 9:27 PM To: David G. Johnston Cc: Zhang Mingli ; PostgreSQL Hackers Subject: Re: [Question] W

Re: [Question] Window Function Results without ORDER BY Clause

2025-07-11 Thread Tom Lane
"David G. Johnston" writes: > On Friday, July 11, 2025, Zhang Mingli 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

Re: [Question] Window Function Results without ORDER BY Clause

2025-07-11 Thread David G. Johnston
On Friday, July 11, 2025, Zhang Mingli wrote: > > Referring to the SQL 2011 standard, it states that if ORDER BY is > omitted, the order of rows in the partition is undefined. > While using a window function without ORDER BY is valid, the resulting > output seems unpredictable. > > So, are both r