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From Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz
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In response to Getting a random row  (Shaul Dar <shauldar@gmail.com>)
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On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Shaul Dar <shauldar@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,

I am running performance simulation against a DB. I want to randomly pull different records from a large table. However the table has no columns that hold sequential integer values (1..MAX), i.e. the columns all have "holes" (due to earlier filtering).
what do yo umean ? you can restrict range of integer column (or any other type) with constraints, for instance CHECK foo( a between 1 and 100);
 
 
Also PG does not have a concept of an auto-increment pseudo-column like Oracle's "rownum". Any suggestions?
not true - it has sequences, and pseudo type serial. Rtfm!.
 


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