Re: Random numbers - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Ian Lawrence Barwick
Subject Re: Random numbers
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In response to Re: Random numbers  (bricklen <bricklen@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Random numbers  (Szymon Guz <mabewlun@gmail.com>)
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2013/5/26 bricklen <bricklen@gmail.com>:
>
> On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 8:45 AM, Karel Riveron Escobar
> <kescobar@estudiantes.uci.cu> wrote:
>>
>> I want to generate random numbers in Pl/pgSQL. How can I do this?
>> To be more specific, I have to generate random numbers among 0 and 5.
>
>
> One way:
> select n from unnest(ARRAY[0,1,2,3,4,5]) n order by random() limit 1;

somewhat shorter:
 SELECT (random() * 5)::INT

Ian Barwick


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