Re: [HACKERS] Slow count(*) again...

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Neat.  That was my 'you learn something every day' moment.  Thanks.

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 9:06 PM, David Wilson <david.t.wilson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 6:05 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@xxxxxxxxx> 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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- David T. Wilson
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