MemorySaver doesn't store checkpoints in descending order by timestamp

[labdmitriy]

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Example Code

from pprint import pprint

from langgraph.checkpoint.memory import MemorySaver
from langgraph.graph import StateGraph

builder = StateGraph(int)
builder.add_node("add_one", lambda x: x + 1)
builder.set_entry_point("add_one")
builder.set_finish_point("add_one")

memory = MemorySaver()
graph = builder.compile(checkpointer=memory)
config = {"configurable": {"thread_id": "thread-1"}}

pprint(graph.invoke(1, config))
pprint(list(graph.get_state_history(config)))
pprint(list(memory.list(config)))
print(memory.list.__doc__)

Error Message and Stack Trace (if applicable)

No response

Description

• I'm trying to reproduce the example from the home page of the LangGraph documentation
• I expect to see that MemorySaver stores checkpoints in descending order by timestamp as described in the docstring of the list method
• Instead, it is not stored in descending order by timestamp, but probably insertion order of defaultdict is used, because MemorySaver's storage is currently based on defaultdict and there is no explicit sorting of the states (which is used, for example, by SqliteSaver)

System Info

Package Information

langchain_core: 0.2.9 langchain: 0.2.5 langchain_community: 0.2.5 langsmith: 0.1.81 langchain_experimental: 0.0.61 langchain_text_splitters: 0.2.1 langchainhub: 0.1.20 langgraph: 0.1.1 langserve: 0.2.2

[hinthornw]

Acknowledged. It indeed is saving them in insertion order

[nfcampos]

This has been fixed

[labdmitriy]

@hinthornw @nfcampos Thank you!

Then probably here is the wrong (ascending) order of the states in the history: https://langchain-ai.github.io/langgraph/how-tos/human_in_the_loop/time-travel/#checking-history