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From	bricklen
Subject	Re: Random numbers
Date	May 25, 2013 18:50:07
Msg-id	CAGrpgQ8nrrYuZxXn2FpqYdBiq0S3HjhhgCFAYx-p92Wed537pA@mail.gmail.com Whole thread Raw
In response to	Random numbers (Karel Riveron Escobar <kescobar@estudiantes.uci.cu>)
Responses	Re: Random numbers Re: Random numbers
List	pgsql-general

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;

From: Karel Riveron Escobar
Date: 25 May 2013, 18:45:54
Subject: Random numbers

From: Ian Lawrence Barwick
Date: 25 May 2013, 18:56:57
Subject: Re: Random numbers