From: | Stefan Keller <sfkeller(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | PostGIS Users Discussion <postgis-users(at)lists(dot)osgeo(dot)org>, pgsql-general List <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: [postgis-users] Query with LIMIT but as random result set? |
Date: | 2013-01-08 17:24:46 |
Message-ID: | CAFcOn29BGASSaLtaoiaMPwn_SO_JdXc6xu9RW9irUe-tdKZK7w@mail.gmail.com |
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Hi,
Thanks a lot to Adrian, Nicolas and Brooks.
"... ORDER BY random() LIMIT 10;" works ok.
But with the following option it gets more tricky assume:
> And as an option the (limited) resultset should be spatially
> distributed (not clustered).
I'm thinking about some radial spatial distribution function.
Yours, Stefan
2013/1/8 Brooks Kehler <brookskehler(at)gmail(dot)com>:
> this should work -
>
> order by random() limit 10;
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Stefan Keller <sfkeller(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> I have a query like this
>>
>> SELECT ST_AsText(way) geom, name AS label
>> FROM osm_point
>> LIMIT 10;
>>
>> When I repeatedly do this, the result set will be always the same.
>> I have observed this only empirically and I know that the ordering of
>> the result set is undefined without ORDER BY.
>> There are two indexes involved, one geospatial for way and one for name.
>>
>> My question is: Does someone have an idea on how to randomize the
>> result set on every consecutive query?
>> And as an option the (limited) resultset should be spatially
>> distributed (not clustered).
>>
>> Yours, Stefan
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