Re: Generating sample data

From: Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>
To: Rich Shepard <rshepard(at)appl-ecosys(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Generating sample data
Date: 2016-12-27 22:23:54
Message-ID: ff4d94a1-a790-6760-2dfa-88a22a42f5b2@aklaver.com
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On 12/27/2016 12:03 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Dec 2016, Greg Navis wrote:
>
>> In the Ruby land there's a gem called faker
>> <https://github.com/stympy/faker> that allows you to generate fake data.
>> However, I'm not sure it can generate data based on a schema so a little
>> bit of scripting my be necessary. Would this approach work for you?
>
> Greg,
>
> I work in Python, not Ruby, so this might be too big of a hurdle.

As it happens there is a Python version of the a fore mentioned faker:

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Faker/0.7.7

It was I use to generate fake/sample data.

>
> Thanks,
>
> Rich
>
>

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Adrian Klaver
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