Re: [GENERAL] Random numbers

2013-05-25 Thread Szymon Guz
On 25 May 2013 18:14, Karel Riveron Escobar wrote: > How would be if I would want to generate values among 3 and 5? > > > Hi Karel, try something like: SELECT floor(3 + random()*(5-3+1))::INT Or generally: CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION random_range(INTEGER, INTEGER) RETURNS INTEGER AS $$ SELEC

Re: [GENERAL] Random numbers

2013-05-25 Thread Karel Riveron Escobar
Riveron Escobar" | , pgsql-general@postgresql.org | Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2013 12:10:52 PM | Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Random numbers | On 25 May 2013 17:56, Ian Lawrence Barwick < barw...@gmail.com > | wrote: | | 2013/5/26 bricklen < brick...@gmail.com >: | | | > | | | > On Sat, May

Re: [GENERAL] Random numbers

2013-05-25 Thread Szymon Guz
On 25 May 2013 17:56, Ian Lawrence Barwick wrote: > 2013/5/26 bricklen : > > > > On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 8:45 AM, Karel Riveron Escobar > > wrote: > >> > >> 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

Re: [GENERAL] Random numbers

2013-05-25 Thread Karel Riveron Escobar
Riverón Consejo Científico Estudiantil Universidad de las Ciencias Informáticas - Original Message - | From: "bricklen" | To: "Karel Riveron Escobar" | Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org | Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2013 11:50:03 AM | Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Random numbe

Re: [GENERAL] Random numbers

2013-05-25 Thread Ian Lawrence Barwick
2013/5/26 bricklen : > > On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 8:45 AM, Karel Riveron Escobar > wrote: >> >> 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. > > > One way: > select n from unnest(ARRAY[0,1,2,3,4,5]) n orde

Re: [GENERAL] Random numbers

2013-05-25 Thread bricklen
On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 8:45 AM, Karel Riveron Escobar < kesco...@estudiantes.uci.cu> wrote: > 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. > One way: select n from unnest(ARRAY[0,1,2,3,4,5]) n order by r

[GENERAL] Random numbers

2013-05-25 Thread Karel Riveron Escobar
Hello list, 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. Thanks in advance. Regards, Karel Riverón Student Scientific Council Informatics Science University http://www.uci.cu