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From Gavin Flower
Subject Re: [postgis-users] Query with LIMIT but as random result set?
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Msg-id 50F050B1.2070107@archidevsys.co.nz
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In response to Re: [postgis-users] Query with LIMIT but as random result set?  (Bosco Rama <postgres@boscorama.com>)
Responses >  (Gavan Schneider <pg-gts@snkmail.com>)
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On 12/01/13 06:45, Bosco Rama wrote:
On 01/11/13 09:31, Gavin Flower wrote:

-- theta in radians
-- for radius = 100

INSERT INTO ranpoint    (id, theta, r)
VALUES    (generate_series(1, 10), pi() * random(), 100 * random());

Shouldn't the value for theta be:    2 * pi() * random()

Bosco.
Very definitely!  :-)

Me bad, as the saying goes...


Cheers,
Gavin

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