From: | Vik Fearing <vik(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr> |
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To: | Tom Smith <tomsmith1989sk(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: TABLESAMPLE usage |
Date: | 2016-01-25 08:48:01 |
Message-ID: | 56A5E141.7040503@2ndquadrant.fr |
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On 01/25/2016 05:09 AM, Tom Smith wrote:
> Hello:
>
> I have a big table with that is always appended with new data with a unique
> sequence id (always incremented, or timestamp as unique index) each row.
> I'd like to sample, say 100 rows out of say 1000 rows evently across all
> the rows,
> so that it would return rows of1, 101, 201, 301 you get idea.
> can TABLESAMPLE get one row for every 100 rows, based on the order
> of the rows added to table using the timestamp as already indexed/sorted
> sequence
No, TABLESAMPLE is intended to take a random sampling of the data using
various methods.
You're looking for something more like this:
select t.*
from generate_series(1, (select max(id) from t), 100) g
join t on t.id = g;
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