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Re:Show HN: Pg_disorder – shuffle or reverse unordered SELEC... by gaya3bollineni on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @02:39PM (#49350494)
Interesting approach. How often do you find queries unintentionally relying on the default row order?
Re:Show HN: Pg_disorder – shuffle or reverse unordered SELEC... by viralpraxis on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @09:01AM (#49361056)
Every project I tested (mid- to large-sized) had some flaky tests caused by relying on the default row order. In my evaluation of 10 popular PG-based projects, most of them (6 or 7, although its hard to say for sure before sending patches and getting feedback) had at least one application-level bug related to this assumption. This probably isnt a very representative sample, but it at least shows that this is not a purely theoretical issue