| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Jelle Ouwerkerk <jelle(at)openface(dot)ca>, pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: random |
| Date: | 2001-03-05 21:45:37 |
| Message-ID: | 200103052145.QAA04799@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > But random returns a random value from 0-1, right? How does that work
> > in ORDER BY?
>
> What's the problem? Each row gets a different random value, then we
> sort.
Oh, I see. Nifty. I am used to seeing a column name or number in ORDER
BY. Why doesn't the parser see this as a column number?
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