Sorting Rows (ORDER BY)¶
PostgreSQL Global Development Group. (2026). Sorting Rows (ORDER BY). PostgreSQL 18 Documentation.
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Mechanisms¶
- Database ORDER BY Contract
- Its strength is eliminating a whole family of intermittent bugs — flaky pagination, nondeterministic exports, tests that pass locally and fail in CI — by refusing to depend on behavior the SQL standard never promised: without an `ORDER BY`, the order of a result set is simply unspecified.
This sourceExplains that result-row order is unspecified unless an ORDER BY clause requests a particular ordering.
- Its strength is eliminating a whole family of intermittent bugs — flaky pagination, nondeterministic exports, tests that pass locally and fail in CI — by refusing to depend on behavior the SQL standard never promised: without an `ORDER BY`, the order of a result set is simply unspecified.
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