q900005

R-ORD EQUAL ordering-over-numeric-text

questions

The question

What are the tags, lightest first?

the hint the set supplies: the mass refers to main.y.mass

NOT_EQUAL states that these two statements disagree on this data under this rule. It does not state which of them is wrong.

The statements

gold

SELECT tag FROM main.y ORDER BY mass ASC
mass
ascending, nulls first

sha256:e805cfe66db167e444562fbfcb99838ae2258d3d403e52e63213a6ec6597e3c9

second

SELECT t.tag FROM main.y AS t ORDER BY t.mass ASC
t.mass
ascending, nulls first

sha256:e805cfe66db167e444562fbfcb99838ae2258d3d403e52e63213a6ec6597e3c9

The marked tokens are where the two texts differ. Two statements that differ everywhere can return the same rows, and two that differ in one token can return other rows; the verdict above is read off the results.

The rows they differ in

in gold, not in the prediction, 0 rows

from counterexample.json, 0 rows, up to 25 shown per side

side tagTEXT
no rows

in the prediction, not in gold, 0 rows

from counterexample.json, 0 rows, up to 25 shown per side

side tagTEXT
no rows

What the benchmark would have said

BIRD's own check: 1

set(second_rows) == set(gold_rows), REAL cells as Python float as sqlite3 returns them, so Python equality holds 1 == 1.0 == True as the benchmark's own scorer does

https://github.com/bird-bench/mini_dev/blob/main/evaluation/evaluation_ex.py

gold_rows
3
second_rows
3
gold_distinct_rows
3
second_distinct_rows
3

the test-suite check: 1

result_eq: equal row counts and equal column counts, each row unordered as a quick rejection, then the two equal as a list when the gold text holds ORDER BY and as a multiset otherwise, under some permutation of the columns; DISTINCT is not stripped and re-executed, and the cells are SQLite's as sqlite3 returns them

ruiqi-zhong/test-suite-sql-eval, exec_eval.py, result_eq, at commit 48cb78ec: https://github.com/ruiqi-zhong/test-suite-sql-eval/blob/48cb78ecf7f610620206283846c76751b18a1326/exec_eval.py

order_matters
true
gold_rows
3
second_rows
3
gold_columns
1
second_columns
1

The results

gold, 3 rows

from counterexample.json, 3 rows

tagTEXT
lead
zinc
iron
second, 3 rows

from counterexample.json, 3 rows

tagTEXT
lead
zinc
iron

The probes

A smell is a mechanical reason to read this gold statement again. It is a heuristic: it does not state that the statement is wrong, and a maintainer decides.

ordering-over-numeric-text fired

this statement orders by a text column holding only numbers, and ordering it as a number gives a different answer, so the gold may be sorting 9.5 above 10

from smells.json, 3 rows

lead
zinc
iron
what it measured
{
  "heuristic": true,
  "keys": [
    {
      "key": "mass",
      "column": "main.y.mass",
      "declared_type": "TEXT",
      "not_applicable": null,
      "census": {
        "rows": 3,
        "nulls": 0,
        "empty_strings": 0,
        "non_numeric": 0,
        "pattern": "^-?[0-9]+(\\.[0-9]+)?$"
      },
      "every_value_is_numeric": true,
      "cast_sql": "SELECT tag FROM main.y ORDER BY CAST(mass AS REAL) ASC",
      "verdict": "not_equal",
      "gold_result": {
        "columns": [
          {
            "name": "tag",
            "declared_type": "TEXT"
          }
        ],
        "row_count": 3,
        "truncated": false,
        "rows_shown": 3,
        "rows": [
          [
            {
              "type": "str",
              "value": "lead"
            }
          ],
          [
            {
              "type": "str",
              "value": "zinc"
            }
          ],
          [
            {
              "type": "str",
              "value": "iron"
            }
          ]
        ],
        "result_hash": "sha256:e805cfe66db167e444562fbfcb99838ae2258d3d403e52e63213a6ec6597e3c9"
      },
      "cast_result": {
        "columns": [
          {
            "name": "tag",
            "declared_type": "TEXT"
          }
        ],
        "row_count": 3,
        "truncated": false,
        "rows_shown": 3,
        "rows": [
          [
            {
              "type": "str",
              "value": "iron"
            }
          ],
          [
            {
              "type": "str",
              "value": "lead"
            }
          ],
          [
            {
              "type": "str",
              "value": "zinc"
            }
          ]
        ],
        "result_hash": "sha256:47d73ed070fd58c8c1afeb4797a592c958872b597b999e194dc7bfe8d0e53075"
      }
    }
  ]
}

arbitrary-cut not applicable

this statement cuts its result at a LIMIT that does not decide which rows come back, so a different but equally correct statement can return other rows and score zero

the statement states no LIMIT

what it measured
{
  "heuristic": true,
  "reason": "the statement states no LIMIT"
}

not-a-function-of-the-data quiet

rerun over the same rows in another physical order this statement gives another answer, so its result depends on how the rows are stored and not only on the data

what it measured
{
  "heuristic": true,
  "rule": "R-ORD",
  "baseline_result_hash": "sha256:e805cfe66db167e444562fbfcb99838ae2258d3d403e52e63213a6ec6597e3c9",
  "baseline_result": {
    "columns": [
      {
        "name": "tag",
        "declared_type": "TEXT"
      }
    ],
    "row_count": 3,
    "truncated": false,
    "rows_shown": 3,
    "rows": [
      [
        {
          "type": "str",
          "value": "lead"
        }
      ],
      [
        {
          "type": "str",
          "value": "zinc"
        }
      ],
      [
        {
          "type": "str",
          "value": "iron"
        }
      ]
    ],
    "result_hash": "sha256:e805cfe66db167e444562fbfcb99838ae2258d3d403e52e63213a6ec6597e3c9"
  },
  "planner_statistics": {},
  "shuffle": {
    "seed": "1",
    "row_limit": 300000,
    "tables": [
      "main.y"
    ],
    "tables_not_shuffled": [
      "main.y"
    ],
    "tables_skipped_for_size": {},
    "tables_not_reached_by_a_copy": {
      "main.y": "the statement names this table's schema, and a name that states its schema is read from that schema whatever TEMP holds, so the rerun reads this table and not a copy of it"
    }
  },
  "shuffled_copies": {
    "run": true,
    "verdict": "equal",
    "differs": false,
    "result_hash": "sha256:e805cfe66db167e444562fbfcb99838ae2258d3d403e52e63213a6ec6597e3c9",
    "result": {
      "columns": [
        {
          "name": "tag",
          "declared_type": "TEXT"
        }
      ],
      "row_count": 3,
      "truncated": false,
      "rows_shown": 3,
      "rows": [
        [
          {
            "type": "str",
            "value": "lead"
          }
        ],
        [
          {
            "type": "str",
            "value": "zinc"
          }
        ],
        [
          {
            "type": "str",
            "value": "iron"
          }
        ]
      ],
      "result_hash": "sha256:e805cfe66db167e444562fbfcb99838ae2258d3d403e52e63213a6ec6597e3c9"
    }
  },
  "plan_variant": {
    "run": false,
    "reason": "the plan variant was not asked for"
  }
}

The evidence records

gold: evidence-gold.json

SELECT tag FROM main.y ORDER BY mass ASC
statement read from
demo/questions.json
digest
sha256:7ad58addc070b425cabfc9d67bbd9c95840253160cf3b73d672e9aeb4897f5ff
origin
the run was told none

result_hash sha256:e805cfe66db167e444562fbfcb99838ae2258d3d403e52e63213a6ec6597e3c9 recomputed from this JSON: match

record_hash sha256:731904489186726f997cd54057911c38140ef9e689b19876a478e53a9115ab02 recomputed from this JSON: match

the result this record holds, 3 rows

from evidence-gold.json, 3 rows

tagTEXT
lead
zinc
iron
what ran, and where
run
audit-5ac1b5ac-ceba-418a-841e-577381666b11
executed at
2026-09-08T04:11:01.303200+00:00
data as of
2026-09-08T04:11:01.285823+00:00
backend at checkout
SQLite 3.53.4 | file=/private/tmp/attestql-site-sandbox/demo/fixture.sqlite | size=69632
backend that answered
SQLite 3.53.4 | file=/private/tmp/attestql-site-sandbox/demo/fixture.sqlite | size=69632
database role
file
replay rule
R-ORD
question set version
sha256:7ad58addc070b425cabfc9d67bbd9c95840253160cf3b73d672e9aeb4897f5ff
validator
audit:sqlglot-sqlite-parse
checks run
parses_as_exactly_one_statement, the_one_statement_is_a_select, no_placeholder_without_a_bound_parameter
statement timeout
30000 ms
rows
3 rows
the session it ran under
engine
sqlite
time_zone
not stated by this engine
date_style
not stated by this engine
interval_style
not stated by this engine
extra_float_digits
not stated by this engine
database_collation
not stated by this engine
work_mem
not stated by this engine
hash_mem_multiplier
not stated by this engine

recorded beside them

sqlite_version
3.53.4
encoding
UTF-8
reverse_unordered_selects
0
query_only
1
journal_mode
delete
data_version
1
compile_options
ATOMIC_INTRINSICS=1,COMPILER=clang-21.0.0,DEFAULT_AUTOVACUUM,DEFAULT_CACHE_SIZE=-2000,DEFAULT_FILE_FORMAT=4,DEFAULT_JOURNAL_SIZE_LIMIT=-1,DEFAULT_MMAP_SIZE=0,DEFAULT_PAGE_SIZE=4096,DEFAULT_PCACHE_INITSZ=20,DEFAULT_RECURSIVE_TRIGGERS,DEFAULT_SECTOR_SIZE=4096,DEFAULT_SYNCHRONOUS=2,DEFAULT_WAL_AUTOCHECKPOINT=1000,DEFAULT_WAL_SYNCHRONOUS=2,DEFAULT_WORKER_THREADS=0,DIRECT_OVERFLOW_READ,ENABLE_API_ARMOR,ENABLE_COLUMN_METADATA,ENABLE_DBSTAT_VTAB,ENABLE_FTS3,ENABLE_FTS3_PARENTHESIS,ENABLE_FTS5,ENABLE_GEOPOLY,ENABLE_MATH_FUNCTIONS,ENABLE_MEMORY_MANAGEMENT,ENABLE_PERCENTILE,ENABLE_PREUPDATE_HOOK,ENABLE_RTREE,ENABLE_SESSION,ENABLE_STAT4,ENABLE_UNLOCK_NOTIFY,MALLOC_SOFT_LIMIT=1024,MAX_ATTACHED=10,MAX_COLUMN=2000,MAX_COMPOUND_SELECT=500,MAX_DEFAULT_PAGE_SIZE=8192,MAX_EXPR_DEPTH=1000,MAX_FUNCTION_ARG=1000,MAX_LENGTH=1000000000,MAX_LIKE_PATTERN_LENGTH=50000,MAX_MMAP_SIZE=0x7fff0000,MAX_PAGE_COUNT=0xfffffffe,MAX_PAGE_SIZE=65536,MAX_SQL_LENGTH=1000000000,MAX_TRIGGER_DEPTH=1000,MAX_VARIABLE_NUMBER=250000,MAX_VDBE_OP=250000000,MAX_WORKER_THREADS=8,MUTEX_PTHREADS,SYSTEM_MALLOC,TEMP_STORE=1,THREADSAFE=1,USE_URI
collation_list
RTRIM,NOCASE,BINARY
case_sensitive_like
0
the rendering and the data
version
attestql/audit/2
numeric_scale
6
timestamp_format
%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%fZ
timezone
UTC
null_rendering
NULL
encoding
utf-8
schema digest
sha256:51532f4381a4be11c44924a6d2d8176c661f8809afc0ebcc98e5f59be6f596f6
source file sha256
rows in main.y
3

second: evidence-second.json

SELECT t.tag FROM main.y AS t ORDER BY t.mass ASC
statement read from
demo/predictions.json
digest
sha256:497ab56b10daa81359a51f3be419fe16e5b796b0cc33cb1aff6c24c9aa853780
origin
the run was told none

result_hash sha256:e805cfe66db167e444562fbfcb99838ae2258d3d403e52e63213a6ec6597e3c9 recomputed from this JSON: match

record_hash sha256:f3297a20b4870e4cd7409117fbd7ded5963e869168d5dd9b821b9dd2d9e5137b recomputed from this JSON: match

the result this record holds, 3 rows

from evidence-second.json, 3 rows

tagTEXT
lead
zinc
iron
what ran, and where
run
audit-5ac1b5ac-ceba-418a-841e-577381666b11
executed at
2026-09-08T04:11:01.303244+00:00
data as of
2026-09-08T04:11:01.285823+00:00
backend at checkout
SQLite 3.53.4 | file=/private/tmp/attestql-site-sandbox/demo/fixture.sqlite | size=69632
backend that answered
SQLite 3.53.4 | file=/private/tmp/attestql-site-sandbox/demo/fixture.sqlite | size=69632
database role
file
replay rule
R-ORD
question set version
sha256:7ad58addc070b425cabfc9d67bbd9c95840253160cf3b73d672e9aeb4897f5ff
validator
audit:sqlglot-sqlite-parse
checks run
parses_as_exactly_one_statement, the_one_statement_is_a_select, no_placeholder_without_a_bound_parameter
statement timeout
30000 ms
rows
3 rows
the session it ran under
engine
sqlite
time_zone
not stated by this engine
date_style
not stated by this engine
interval_style
not stated by this engine
extra_float_digits
not stated by this engine
database_collation
not stated by this engine
work_mem
not stated by this engine
hash_mem_multiplier
not stated by this engine

recorded beside them

sqlite_version
3.53.4
encoding
UTF-8
reverse_unordered_selects
0
query_only
1
journal_mode
delete
data_version
1
compile_options
ATOMIC_INTRINSICS=1,COMPILER=clang-21.0.0,DEFAULT_AUTOVACUUM,DEFAULT_CACHE_SIZE=-2000,DEFAULT_FILE_FORMAT=4,DEFAULT_JOURNAL_SIZE_LIMIT=-1,DEFAULT_MMAP_SIZE=0,DEFAULT_PAGE_SIZE=4096,DEFAULT_PCACHE_INITSZ=20,DEFAULT_RECURSIVE_TRIGGERS,DEFAULT_SECTOR_SIZE=4096,DEFAULT_SYNCHRONOUS=2,DEFAULT_WAL_AUTOCHECKPOINT=1000,DEFAULT_WAL_SYNCHRONOUS=2,DEFAULT_WORKER_THREADS=0,DIRECT_OVERFLOW_READ,ENABLE_API_ARMOR,ENABLE_COLUMN_METADATA,ENABLE_DBSTAT_VTAB,ENABLE_FTS3,ENABLE_FTS3_PARENTHESIS,ENABLE_FTS5,ENABLE_GEOPOLY,ENABLE_MATH_FUNCTIONS,ENABLE_MEMORY_MANAGEMENT,ENABLE_PERCENTILE,ENABLE_PREUPDATE_HOOK,ENABLE_RTREE,ENABLE_SESSION,ENABLE_STAT4,ENABLE_UNLOCK_NOTIFY,MALLOC_SOFT_LIMIT=1024,MAX_ATTACHED=10,MAX_COLUMN=2000,MAX_COMPOUND_SELECT=500,MAX_DEFAULT_PAGE_SIZE=8192,MAX_EXPR_DEPTH=1000,MAX_FUNCTION_ARG=1000,MAX_LENGTH=1000000000,MAX_LIKE_PATTERN_LENGTH=50000,MAX_MMAP_SIZE=0x7fff0000,MAX_PAGE_COUNT=0xfffffffe,MAX_PAGE_SIZE=65536,MAX_SQL_LENGTH=1000000000,MAX_TRIGGER_DEPTH=1000,MAX_VARIABLE_NUMBER=250000,MAX_VDBE_OP=250000000,MAX_WORKER_THREADS=8,MUTEX_PTHREADS,SYSTEM_MALLOC,TEMP_STORE=1,THREADSAFE=1,USE_URI
collation_list
RTRIM,NOCASE,BINARY
case_sensitive_like
0
the rendering and the data
version
attestql/audit/2
numeric_scale
6
timestamp_format
%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%fZ
timezone
UTC
null_rendering
NULL
encoding
utf-8
schema digest
sha256:51532f4381a4be11c44924a6d2d8176c661f8809afc0ebcc98e5f59be6f596f6
source file sha256
rows in main.y
3

Running these again

gold

re-run this statement read-only against SQLite 3.53.4 | file=/private/tmp/attestql-site-sandbox/demo/fixture.sqlite | size=69632 under the session settings and over the data this record's fixture digest names, and compare the two results under R-ORD

second

re-run this statement read-only against SQLite 3.53.4 | file=/private/tmp/attestql-site-sandbox/demo/fixture.sqlite | size=69632 under the session settings and over the data this record's fixture digest names, and compare the two results under R-ORD

This question's run

run
audit-5ac1b5ac-ceba-418a-841e-577381666b11
server
SQLite 3.53.4 | file=/private/tmp/attestql-site-sandbox/demo/fixture.sqlite | size=69632
question set
questions
replay rule
R-ORD

the run this question belongs to

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