| From: | Enver ALTIN <enver(dot)altin(at)frontsite(dot)com(dot)tr> |
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| To: | pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | randomized order in select? |
| Date: | 2004-03-10 16:48:17 |
| Message-ID: | 1078937297.29628.12.camel@enver.office.frontsite.com.tr |
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Hi,
I have got a simple table like this:
create table tips (
id integer primary key unique,
tiptext text
);
and, I've got a website where I'm willing to show these tips in a random
order. Each visitor will get a randomly selected tip. So for now, I have
to do 2 queries:
select id from tips
collect an ID list, choose one randomly and retrieve it. I wish I could
do something like:
select tiptext from tips order by random limit 1
in PostgreSQL.
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