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Re: [PATCH] Generate random dates/times in a specified range

Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>

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From: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>
To: Damien Clochard <damien@dalibo.info>
Cc: Vik Fearing <vik@postgresfriends.org>, Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2025-08-27T11:35:26Z
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  1. doc: Improve description of new random(min, max) functions.

  2. Add date and timestamp variants of random(min, max).

On Mon, 25 Aug 2025 at 12:42, Damien Clochard <damien@dalibo.info> wrote:
>
> Note that former random function variants are documented in
> func/func-math.sgml but it felt more logical to document the new
> variants in func-datetime.sgml. As a result the random variants would be
> documented in 2 separate sections of chapter 9.

Note the paragraph below the table listing the current random
functions, explaining the PRNG and the interaction with setseed(). If
you document the new functions in a separate section, that text would
need updating to refer to 2 separate locations (and possibly more in
the future), which seems a little messy. So I think it would be better
to keep documenting all the random functions together in the same
table.

Regards,
Dean