Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-3.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54038632AFD for ; Fri, 20 Aug 2010 11:01:43 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 71569-03 for ; Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:01:34 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13802632A48 for ; Fri, 20 Aug 2010 11:01:35 -0300 (ADT) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o7KE1Wpr016576; Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:01:33 -0400 (EDT) To: Thom Brown cc: pgsql-docs Subject: Re: Unordered SELECT - random vs undefined In-reply-to: References: <16245.1282311936@sss.pgh.pa.us> Comments: In-reply-to Thom Brown message dated "Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:49:28 +0100" Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:01:32 -0400 Message-ID: <16575.1282312892@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.91 tagged_above=-5 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201008/66 X-Sequence-Number: 5890 Thom Brown writes: > On 20 August 2010 14:45, Tom Lane wrote: >> Perhaps "unspecified" is le mot juste. > Yes, that sounds more appopriate. OK, done. I found one other place in the docs where "random" seemed to be used inappropriately, too. regards, tom lane