Tom Lane said:
> "Jim C. Nasby" <decibel@decibel.org> writes:
>>> but I also hate to burden the developers with rewriting a lot of
>>> regression tests when their time could be better spent elsewhere.
>
>> Certainly, but I suspect it's just a matter of adding ORDER BY to
>> everything, which just about anyone (even myself!) should be able to
>> do.
>
> Performance is not the issue; test coverage, however, is an issue. See
> the comment at the end of
> http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/regress-evaluation.html#AEN22383>
Is it not possible to wrap the original query in an outer query that applies
the ordering, leaving the original query run without ordering? Would that
cause a lessening of test coverage?
cheers
andrew