Re: Generating random values. - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Sebastian Hennebrueder
Subject Re: Generating random values.
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Msg-id 43037713.1060301@laliluna.de
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In response to Generating random values.  (Fernando Lujan <flujan@gmail.com>)
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Fernando Lujan schrieb:

>Hi folks,
>
>I have a table wich contains my users... I want to insert to each user
>a random password, so I need a random function. Is there such function
>in Postgres? I just found the RANDOM which generates values between
>0.0 and 1.0.
>
>Any help or suggestion will be appreciated. :)
>
>Fernando Lujan
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Create an array of characters and numbers.
Estimating the array size at 30
Calculate something like round(random * 30) and fetch a character from
the array.
Repeat this for each character

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