On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 22:05 +0200, Andrei Kovalevski wrote:
> How can you garantee that "somevalue + random()" won't duplicate other
> unique values in this column? ;)
Like the inane memo from the boss says, "expect the unexpected" and
"tell me all the unpredictable issues that will happen".
If uid is unique then something like
=> select uid,somevalue,somevalue||'-'||uid from mytable
is much better.
-Reece
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