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

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