Re: random() generates collisions too early

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>
Cc: Honza Horak <hhorak(at)redhat(dot)com>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: random() generates collisions too early
Date: 2013-10-23 13:08:04
Message-ID: 25592.1382533684@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com> writes:
> Or perhaps it would be even better to move random() and setseed to a
> separate table. They are somewhat different from the rest of the
> functions listed in the table of Mathematical Functions, and it would be
> nice to list them together; currently the round() functions fall between
> them in the alphabetically ordered table. What do you think of the attached?

+1, but (a) I think the tgroup has 3 cols not 2; (b) s/depends/depend/
for grammar reaons.

regards, tom lane

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