Re: TABLESAMPLE usage

From: Vik Fearing <vik(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr>
To: Tom Smith <tomsmith1989sk(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: TABLESAMPLE usage
Date: 2016-01-25 10:21:05
Message-ID: 56A5F711.2010803@2ndquadrant.fr
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On 01/25/2016 09:55 AM, Tom Smith wrote:
> Thanks, the solution would work for fixed interval timestamp.
> But the data I am dealing with has irregular timestamp so can not be
> generated with exact steps.
>
> I would consider this a special case/method of random sampling, evenly
> distributed sampling according to the defined timestamp index.

You could probably create your own sampling method to do what you want.

See contrib modules tsm_system_rows and tsm_system_time for guidance.
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/tsm-system-rows.html
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/tsm-system-time.html
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