On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Fabian Groffen <[email protected]>wrote:
> On 22-09-2011 14:34:32 +0200, Lefteris wrote: > > SAMPLE 1 will mean 1 tuple > > > > and > > > > SAMPLE 1.0 will mean 100% > > > > it it is an integer is number of tuples and if it is a double is the > > fraction of the total size of results > > How about introducing the following "SQL-ish" syntax instead: > > SAMPLE 1 PERCENT > > (that is, no more doubles, but just optional PERCENT keyword) > > I think is too much of syntactical hassle for the user. Naturally it comes that he will write select * from table SAMPLE 300 and will take 300 tuples while if he writes select * from table SAMPLE 0.3 it will mean that he wants 0.3 * #results > _______________________________________________ > Checkin-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.monetdb.org/mailman/listinfo/checkin-list > >
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