Thom Brown wrote: > If this results in an unpredictable and non-duplicating loop of generated > sets of characters, that would be ideal. Would a parallel for this be a > 5-character code possibly transcoded from a 6-character GUID/UUID? (a-h + > j+n + p-z + A-H + J-N + P+Z + 2-9 = 56 possible characters, 56^5 = > 550,731,776, 550,731,776 / 16 (hex character set) ^ 6 (characters) = just > over 32.), so wouldn't actually use up all possible combinations. :/
56^5 is the number of strings that you can form with 5 letters of the 56 letters alphabet. But independantly of that , what is the minimum number of different values that you truly need? Best regards, -- Daniel PostgreSQL-powered mail user agent and storage: http://www.manitou-mail.org -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
