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  2. MDEV-39983

ORDER BY does not work well in JSON_ARRAYAGG

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      Hi,

      I found that the ORDER BY may not return the correct order in JSON_ARRAYAGG. This is an example:

      SET SESSION group_concat_max_len=100;
      SET SESSION max_recursive_iterations=2000;
       
      CREATE TABLE t(a INT, b VARCHAR(200) NULL);
       
      INSERT INTO t
      WITH RECURSIVE seq AS (
        SELECT 1 AS n
        UNION ALL
        SELECT n + 1 FROM seq WHERE n < 1500
      )
      SELECT n, RPAD(CONCAT('v', LPAD(n, 4, '0')), 80, CHAR(64 + (n % 26))) FROM seq;
       
      SELECT LENGTH(JSON_ARRAYAGG(b ORDER BY a)) AS len_all,
             JSON_ARRAYAGG(b ORDER BY a) AS all_rows
      FROM t; -- 102	["v0001AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA","v1294TTTTTTTTTT"]
       
      SELECT LENGTH(JSON_ARRAYAGG(b ORDER BY a)) AS len_two,
             JSON_ARRAYAGG(b ORDER BY a) AS two_rows
      FROM t
      WHERE a <= 2; -- 102	["v0001AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA","v0002BBBBBBBBBB"]
      

      These two SELECT queries should have the same results; however, they return different ones.

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            rucha174 Rucha Deodhar
            ChiZhang Chi Zhang
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