2013/5/26 bricklen <bricklen(at)gmail(dot)com>:
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> On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 8:45 AM, Karel Riveron Escobar
> <kescobar(at)estudiantes(dot)uci(dot)cu> wrote:
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>> I want to generate random numbers in Pl/pgSQL. How can I do this?
>> To be more specific, I have to generate random numbers among 0 and 5.
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> One way:
> select n from unnest(ARRAY[0,1,2,3,4,5]) n order by random() limit 1;
somewhat shorter:
SELECT (random() * 5)::INT
Ian Barwick