From: Aaron Bono <postgresql@aranya.com>
To: A. Kretschmer <andreas.kretschmer@schollglas.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Random()
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 17:14:51 -0600
Message-ID: <bf05e51c0611171514o10891569n4008704562ca55fe@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061116191632.GA21285@a-kretschmer.de>
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<20061116191632.GA21285@a-kretschmer.de>
On 11/16/06, A. Kretschmer <andreas.kretschmer@schollglas.com> wrote:
>
> am Thu, dem 16.11.2006, um 16:31:14 -0200 mailte Ezequias Rodrigues da
> Rocha folgendes:
> > Hi list,
> >
> > I have a bigint collumn and I would like to generate a random number
> within the
> > numbers of my column.
>
> select <bigint_column> from <your_table> order by random() limit 1;
Is this a PostgreSQL thing or is it SQL standard?
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