Re: pg_dump: sortDumpableObjectsByTypeName() doesn't always do that

Jacob Champion <pchampion@pivotal.io> writes:
> We recently ran into an issue in pg_dump that caused the initial
> sort-by-name pass to return incorrect results. It doesn't seem to
> affect overall correctness, since the later toposort pass takes care
> of dependencies, but it does occasionally cause a spurious diff in
> dump output before and after a pg_upgrade run.

Do you mean "incorrect results", or just "unstable results"?
If the former, what's incorrect about it?

            regards, tom lane