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From: Christoph Frick <frick@sc-networks.com>
To: Felix Zhang <felix.zhang.2005@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Cc: pgsql-novice@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [NOVICE] How to split a table?
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 11:26:16 +0200
Message-ID: <20061017092616.GH3822@byleth.sc-networks.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c44bd2680610170039j3342e874ue78bc71a701f76e0@mail.gmail.com>
References: <c44bd2680610170039j3342e874ue78bc71a701f76e0@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 03:39:21PM +0800, Felix Zhang wrote:

> I want to split a table to 2 small tables. The 1st one contains 60%
> records which are randomly selected from the source table.  How to do
> it?

i do my A/B-Group splitting usually by &1 the serial of the table.
assuming, that there are no irregularities in the process of creating
your entries, this should give a 50/50 split, which is reuseable for
future things and there never is a intersection of the two groups.

-- 
cu

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