Gail Badner This fix allows us to skip the sorting when we detect a dependency cycle, which is more like an improvement than a regression.

The use case provided in the test case is very unusual since there are many dependency cycles between associations and across the inheritance tree, and the fix manages to make all those test cases to pass.

So, if we are to back port it, we can do it to 5.3, 5.2 and 5.1 as well.