gold
SELECT GSoffered FROM schools ORDER BY ABS(longitude) DESC NULLS LAST LIMIT 1
- abs(longitude)
- descending
sha256:e5b05f6120040b20ed41b69bd57d43ab4c1aed13e703a7cf08ef042e19ea7d47
R-ORD GOLD-ONLY arbitrary-cut not-a-function-of-the-data
california_schools · mini_dev_pg-00000-of-00001 from https://huggingface.co/datasets/birdsql/bird_mini_dev/resolve/f65faf4ae3b638c1fa6df1d3370c8d92c8366301/data/mini_dev_pg-00000-of-00001.json (commit f65faf4a, downloaded 2026-09-08)
What is the grade span offered in the school with the highest longitude?
the hint the set supplies: the highest longitude refers to the school with the maximum absolute longitude value.
This question was audited without a prediction beside it, so there is nothing to compare the gold with. The probes below read the gold alone.
SELECT GSoffered FROM schools ORDER BY ABS(longitude) DESC NULLS LAST LIMIT 1
sha256:e5b05f6120040b20ed41b69bd57d43ab4c1aed13e703a7cf08ef042e19ea7d47
from evidence-gold.json, 1 row
| gsofferedtext |
|---|
| K-8 |
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.
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
no ORDER BY key resolves to a text column
{
"heuristic": true,
"reason": "no ORDER BY key resolves to a text column",
"keys": [
{
"key": "abs(longitude)",
"not_applicable": "the key is an expression and not a column"
}
]
}
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
from smells.json, 2 rows
| NULL null | 124.28481 |
| K-8 str | 124.28481 |
{
"heuristic": true,
"cut": 1,
"offset": 0,
"distinct_kept": false,
"unbounded_sql": "SELECT gsoffered, abs(longitude) AS attestql_ordering_key_0 FROM schools ORDER BY abs(longitude) DESC NULLS LAST",
"unbounded_rows": 17686,
"projected_columns": [
"gsoffered"
],
"ordering_key_columns": [
"attestql_ordering_key_0"
],
"ordering_keys": [
{
"key": "abs(longitude)",
"direction": "desc",
"nulls": "last",
"nulls_first_in_effect": false,
"returned_rows_null_in_this_key": 0,
"fires": false
}
],
"tied_at_the_cut": {
"positions": [
0,
1
],
"tied_rows": 2,
"distinct_projected_answers": 2,
"rows": [
[
{
"type": "null",
"value": null
}
],
[
{
"type": "str",
"value": "K-8"
}
]
]
},
"case": "tie-at-the-cut"
}
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
from smells.json, 1 row
| NULL |
{
"heuristic": true,
"rule": "R-ORD",
"baseline_result_hash": "sha256:e5b05f6120040b20ed41b69bd57d43ab4c1aed13e703a7cf08ef042e19ea7d47",
"baseline_result": {
"columns": [
{
"name": "gsoffered",
"declared_type": "text"
}
],
"row_count": 1,
"truncated": false,
"rows_shown": 1,
"rows": [
[
{
"type": "str",
"value": "K-8"
}
]
],
"result_hash": "sha256:e5b05f6120040b20ed41b69bd57d43ab4c1aed13e703a7cf08ef042e19ea7d47"
},
"planner_statistics": {
"schools": {
"last_analyze": null,
"last_autoanalyze": "2026-09-08 05:19:52.240861+00",
"n_mod_since_analyze": 0
}
},
"shuffle": {
"seed": "1",
"row_limit": 300000,
"tables": [
"schools"
],
"tables_not_shuffled": [],
"tables_skipped_for_size": {
"laptimes": 400524,
"legalities": 427907,
"posthistory": 303155,
"trans": 1056320,
"yearmonth": 383282
},
"tables_not_reached_by_a_copy": {}
},
"shuffled_copies": {
"run": true,
"verdict": "not_equal",
"differs": true,
"result_hash": "sha256:1b829aa0402048b9ccec3257a9a9e927eac486dca1c336deed2139fe0fc7f3da",
"result": {
"columns": [
{
"name": "gsoffered",
"declared_type": "text"
}
],
"row_count": 1,
"truncated": false,
"rows_shown": 1,
"rows": [
[
{
"type": "null",
"value": null
}
]
],
"result_hash": "sha256:1b829aa0402048b9ccec3257a9a9e927eac486dca1c336deed2139fe0fc7f3da"
}
},
"plan_variant": {
"run": false,
"reason": "the plan variant was not asked for"
}
}
SELECT GSoffered FROM schools ORDER BY ABS(longitude) DESC NULLS LAST LIMIT 1
result_hash sha256:e5b05f6120040b20ed41b69bd57d43ab4c1aed13e703a7cf08ef042e19ea7d47 recomputed from this JSON: match
record_hash sha256:8fac20fb9510f2539a9718914e8742ffa882d5650d26f57c9e4b5ccb143282e9 recomputed from this JSON: match
from evidence-gold.json, 1 row
| gsofferedtext |
|---|
| K-8 |
re-run this statement read-only against PostgreSQL 16.15 (Debian 16.15-1.pgdg13+2) on aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc (Debian 14.2.0-19) 14.2.0, 64-bit | server=172.17.0.2/32:5432 | database=bird under the session settings and over the data this record's fixture digest names, and compare the two results under R-ORD