oracleoracle19cjson-arrayagg

Oracle Cloud DB 19c bug with JSON_ARRAYAGG


I try to use JSON_ARRAYAGG into select and get bug result with the same data

SELECT json_object(
         'buy' VALUE JSON_ARRAYAGG(b.buysum),
         'total' VALUE JSON_ARRAYAGG(b.totalsum)
       )
FROM   (
  select *
  from   view_count_sum
  ORDER BY date_rw DESC
  FETCH FIRST 10 ROWS ONLY
) b
ORDER BY b.date_rw;

As a result i get JSON with 2 arrays which have decrease data order in first array and wrong order in second array

{"buy":[4168,4145,4130,4101,4068,4042,4008,3940,3900,3858],"total":[7778,7258,7333,7442,7546,7607,7642,7683,7718,7745]}

If I replace position JSON_ARRAYAGG in select I see right order for first array again and wrong order for second array

SELECT json_object(
         'total' VALUE JSON_ARRAYAGG(b.totalsum),
         'buy' VALUE JSON_ARRAYAGG(b.buysum)
       )
FROM   (
  select *
  from   view_count_sum
  ORDER BY date_rw DESC
  FETCH FIRST 10 ROWS ONLY
) b
ORDER BY b.date_rw;

See result:

{"total":[7778,7745,7718,7683,7642,7607,7546,7442,7333,7258],"buy":[4168,3858,3900,3940,4008,4042,4068,4101,4130,4145]}

The order second and any other arrays is wrong. The first element is right but all other are reversed


Solution

  • Starting with some data where the expected order is easy to see:

    CREATE TABLE view_count_sum (date_rw, buysum, totalsum) AS
    SELECT 10,  1,  1 FROM DUAL UNION ALL
    SELECT  9,  2,  2 FROM DUAL UNION ALL
    SELECT  8,  3,  3 FROM DUAL UNION ALL
    SELECT  7,  4,  4 FROM DUAL UNION ALL
    SELECT  6,  5,  5 FROM DUAL UNION ALL
    SELECT  5,  6,  6 FROM DUAL UNION ALL
    SELECT  4,  7,  7 FROM DUAL UNION ALL
    SELECT  3,  8,  8 FROM DUAL UNION ALL
    SELECT  2,  9,  9 FROM DUAL UNION ALL
    SELECT  1, 10, 10 FROM DUAL;
    

    Then, if you do:

    SELECT json_object(
             'buy'   VALUE JSON_ARRAYAGG(b.buysum),
             'total' VALUE JSON_ARRAYAGG(b.totalsum)
           ) AS json
    FROM   (
      select *
      from   view_count_sum
      ORDER BY date_rw DESC
      FETCH FIRST 10 ROWS ONLY
    ) b
    ORDER BY b.date_rw;
    

    Then the output is:

    JSON
    {"buy":[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10],"total":[1,10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2]}

    Instead, if you add the ORDER BY clause into the aggregation functions:

    SELECT json_object(
             'buy'   VALUE JSON_ARRAYAGG(b.buysum   ORDER BY b.date_RW DESC),
             'total' VALUE JSON_ARRAYAGG(b.totalsum ORDER BY b.date_RW DESC)
           ) AS json
    FROM   (
      select *
      from   view_count_sum
      ORDER BY date_rw DESC
      FETCH FIRST 10 ROWS ONLY
    ) b;
    

    Then the output is:

    JSON
    {"buy":[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10],"total":[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10]}

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