Re: Custom shuffle function stopped working in 9.6

On 02/11/2017 09:17 AM, Alexander Farber wrote:
> I think ORDER BY RANDOM() has stopped working in 9.6.2:
>
> words=> select unnest(ARRAY['a','b','c','d','e','f']) order by random();
> unnest
> --------
> a
> b
> c
> d
> e
> f
> (6 rows)
>

postgres=> select version();
version
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PostgreSQL 9.6.1 on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc (SUSE Linux) 4.8.5, 64-bit
(1 row)

postgres=> select * from unnest(ARRAY['a','b','c','d','e','f']) order by random();
unnest
--------
d
c
a
f
e
b
(6 rows)

postgres=> select * from unnest(ARRAY['a','b','c','d','e','f']) order by random();
unnest
--------
b
d
e
c
a
f
(6 rows)

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