Hope this function won't be removed. I'm using it
to select a random row like "select xxx from yyy
order by random() limit 1". It's painful to do it
before 7.0.

Regards,
-- 
Guo Bin

--- Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> 
> As far as I can find, random() isn't mentioned in the
> documentation
> currently, so there probably aren't many people using
> it...
> 
> 			regards, tom lane


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