Re: RANDOM function?

if ill be using big range of numbers sa 10000 woundd the be any possibility
to have multiple items... meaning lets say 1234 will show up more than once?
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Einar Karttunen" <ekarttun@cs.Helsinki.FI>
To: "macky" <macky@edsamail.com>
Cc: <pgsql-novice@postgresql.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 1:50 PM
Subject: Re: RANDOM function?


> On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, macky wrote:
>
> > can someone point me to the documentation of RANDOM() function....
> >
> > and can i insert RANDOM POSTIVE WHOLE NUMBERS...?
> >
> > create table table_name (key int4);
> >
> > insert into table_name(key) values(random());  <-- this gives me a value
of
> > 1 and 0 only..
> >
> random produces a float between 0 and 1. Just multiple it with the
> interval you want and you will get the random number you want.
>
> eg. to get a random number between 0 and 100 -> 100 * random().
> between 32 and 40 -> (8 * random()) + 32.
>
> - Einar Karttunen
>
>
>