order by rand() doesn't scale too well unfortunately.
http://www.depesz.com/index.php/2007/09/16/my-thoughts-on-getting-random-row/
has some better approaches. It's postgres specific but the approach
should be generalizable by moving logic to client side.
On Aug 23, 8:30 pm, GustaV [EMAIL
On Aug 23, 2008, at 12:10 PM, GustaV wrote:
Hi all,
Really, you do an amazing job on that stuff, it's a pleasure to work
with!
A short question though. It's possible to get a random order on
selects in mysql using the RAND() in parameter of ORDER BY. I know
similar (but different) was
Ok, I wanted to know if there was a way to do it with no database
specific code.
Then you are right :
I'll first query the result count (unknown a priori) and then use a
random python generated offset.
If anyone has a better idea (in 1 request only), that would be great!
On 23 août, 18:34,
