diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/postgresol_privs-fix-status-sorting.yaml b/changelogs/fragments/postgresol_privs-fix-status-sorting.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e62a249e6b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/postgresol_privs-fix-status-sorting.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - postgresql_privs - sort results before comparing so that the values are compared and not the result of ``.sort()`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/65125)
diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/database/postgresql/postgresql_privs.py b/lib/ansible/modules/database/postgresql/postgresql_privs.py
index eafe4578d3e..b235d96c6a9 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/database/postgresql/postgresql_privs.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/database/postgresql/postgresql_privs.py
@@ -780,7 +780,9 @@ class Connection(object):
         executed_queries.append(query)
         self.cursor.execute(query)
         status_after = get_status(objs)
-        return status_before.sort() != status_after.sort()
+        status_before.sort()
+        status_after.sort()
+        return status_before != status_after
 
 
 class QueryBuilder(object):