Re: Random()

Just another question. I can trust on this random number ? The rule to it is
quite tested ?

I am thinking in implementing a function that return allways a random
number. What do you think of the trust of this function (random()) ?

My bigint field has 20,000 numbers and I'd like to make real random (used
like lottery).

Regards
Ezequias

2006/11/16, A. Kretschmer <andreas(dot)kretschmer(at)schollglas(dot)com>:
>
> 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;
>
>
> Andreas
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