On 7/15/22 04:36, Martin Kalcher wrote:
Dear list,
i am dealing with an application that processes fairly large arrays of integers. It makes heavy use of the intarray extension, which works great in most cases. However, there are two requirements that cannot be addressed by the extension and are rather slow with plain SQL. Both can be met with shuffling:
- Taking n random members from an integer array
- Splitting an array into n chunks, where each member is assigned to a random chunk
Shuffling is currently implemented by unnesting the array, ordering the members by random() and aggregating them again.
Martin, have you considered PL/Python and NumPy module?
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