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In response to Random numbers  (Karel Riveron Escobar <kescobar@estudiantes.uci.cu>)
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Re: Random numbers  (Karel Riveron Escobar <kescobar@estudiantes.uci.cu>)
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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;

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