On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 6:05 PM, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > If you want to randomly pick 10,000 rows out of all the rows that are > going to be inserted in the table without knowing in advance how many > there will be, how do you do that? > Reservoir sampling, as the most well-known option: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reservoir_sampling -- - David T. Wilson david.t.wil...@gmail.com