On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 01:37:59PM +0200, Roberto Cornacchia wrote:
>     + * A new SQL operator has been added to support sampling the
>     result of a query.
>     + * The syntax for sampling is:
>     + * SELECT ... FROM ... WHERE ... SAMPLE s
>     + *
>     + * where s if is an integer greater than 1, it defines the number
>     of rows to be
>     + * in the sample. If s is a double between [0.0,1.0] the it refers
>     to the
>     + * percentage of the result to be sampled. That is if s=0.3 then
>     the sample
>     + * will be 30% the size of the query result.
> 
> 
> Does this mean that it is not possible to select 1 random tuple?
> ("SAMPLE 1" would mean 100%) 

no 1 is a natural number not a decimal. Decimals between 0.0 and 1.0
are used for 'percentage'.

Niels
> 
> Roberto

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