Re: Default ordering option - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Default ordering option
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Msg-id 98233546-f5a4-1786-4641-1d7be8d88bc2@2ndquadrant.com
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In response to Default ordering option  (Cyril Champier <cyril.champier@doctolib.com>)
Responses Re: Default ordering option  (Cyril Champier <cyril.champier@doctolib.com>)
List pgsql-general
On 2019-07-23 17:43, Cyril Champier wrote:
> In this documentation
> <https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/queries-order.html>, it is said:
> 
>     If sorting is not chosen, the rows will be returned in an
>     unspecified order. The actual order in that case will depend on the
>     scan and join plan types and the order on disk, but it must not be
>     relied on.
> 
> 
> I would like to know if there is any way to change that to have a "real"
> random behaviour.

It might be an interesting exercise to implement this as a post-parsing
hook.

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