Erwin Sebastian Andreasen writes:
> Compare the output of:
> select random(), random();
> which will return 2 separate random values with:
> select random(), random() order by random();
> which returns two of the same values (and the same value is also used in
> order by). While I use 9.6, I got t
I wanted to generate some test data based on a subset of rows in a table,
thus used ORDER BY RANDOM(). I was surprised to see that if RANDOM() is
used in ORDER BY it cannot also be used in column names: the same value is
returned.
Compare the output of:
select random(), random();
which will retu