On Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 8:18 PM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Martin Kalcher <martin.kalc...@aboutsource.net> writes: > > > - I added a second function sample(), because it is a lot faster to take > > some elements from an array than to shuffle the whole array and > > slice it. This function can be removed if it is not wanted. > > I have no opinion about whether this one is valuable enough to include in > intarray, but I do feel like sample() is a vague name, and easily confused > with marginally-related operations like TABLESAMPLE. Can we think of a > more on-point name? Something like "random_subset" would be pretty > clear, but it's also clunky. It's too late here for me to think of > le mot juste... > > choose(input anyarray, size integer, with_replacement boolean default false, algorithm text default 'default')?
David J.
