diff --git a/src/Core/Settings.h b/src/Core/Settings.h
index 193072184e8..285a7ca62de 100644
--- a/src/Core/Settings.h
+++ b/src/Core/Settings.h
@@ -585,7 +585,7 @@ class IColumn;
     M(Bool, query_plan_optimize_primary_key, true, "Analyze primary key using query plan (instead of AST)", 0) \
     M(Bool, query_plan_read_in_order, true, "Use query plan for read-in-order optimisation", 0) \
     M(Bool, query_plan_aggregation_in_order, true, "Use query plan for aggregation-in-order optimisation", 0) \
-    M(Bool, query_plan_remove_redundant_sorting, false, "Remove redundant sorting in query plan. For example, sorting steps related to ORDER BY clauses in subqueries", 0) \
+    M(Bool, query_plan_remove_redundant_sorting, true, "Remove redundant sorting in query plan. For example, sorting steps related to ORDER BY clauses in subqueries", 0) \
     M(UInt64, regexp_max_matches_per_row, 1000, "Max matches of any single regexp per row, used to safeguard 'extractAllGroupsHorizontal' against consuming too much memory with greedy RE.", 0) \
     \
     M(UInt64, limit, 0, "Limit on read rows from the most 'end' result for select query, default 0 means no limit length", 0) \
diff --git a/tests/performance/sort.xml b/tests/performance/sort.xml
index 39de5fc04a0..4f126047dfb 100644
--- a/tests/performance/sort.xml
+++ b/tests/performance/sort.xml
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
 <test>
+    <settings>
+        <query_plan_remove_redundant_sorting>0</query_plan_remove_redundant_sorting>
+    </settings>
+
     <create_query>CREATE TABLE rand_unlimited_10m_8 (key UInt8) Engine = Memory</create_query>
 
     <create_query>CREATE TABLE rand_1k_10m_16 (key UInt16) Engine = Memory</create_query>