Opened 4 years ago
Closed 4 years ago
#32060 closed New feature (fixed)
Expose Random() as a function instead of an expression.
Reported by: | Nick Pope | Owned by: | Nick Pope |
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Component: | Database layer (models, ORM) | Version: | dev |
Severity: | Normal | Keywords: | random, function. |
Cc: | Triage Stage: | Ready for checkin | |
Has patch: | yes | Needs documentation: | no |
Needs tests: | no | Patch needs improvement: | no |
Easy pickings: | no | UI/UX: | no |
Description
This follows on from #31839 where all other proposals were rejected, but exposing Random()
as a function was accepted.
I also propose unifying the random number returned to be in the range [0.0, 1.0)
to make it more useful as the backend support differs:
Backend | Function | Type | Range | Notes |
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PostgreSQL | RANDOM | double precision | [0.0, 1.0) | |
MySQL | RAND | double precision | [0.0, 1.0) | |
MariaDB | RAND | double precision | [0.0, 1.0) | |
Oracle | DBMS_RANDOM.RANDOM | integer | [-2^31, 2^31) | Currently used in Django, but Oracle have deprecated it. |
Oracle | DBMS_RANDOM.VALUE | number | [0.0, 1.0) | |
SQLite | RANDOM | integer | [-2^63, 2^63) | We can use Python's random.random() for [0.0, 1.0)
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This shouldn't adversely affect existing use cases of the expression as it was undocumented and used to support .order_by('?')
.
We should steer away from setting the random seed as it varies wildly between backends.
We should also avoid any backend-specific arguments for the upper and lower limits for the random number.
For anyone arriving here that wants to generate a random integer from a random number in the range [0.0, 1.0)
see the MySQL documentation for a good example.
Change History (4)
comment:1 by , 4 years ago
Has patch: | set |
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comment:2 by , 4 years ago
Triage Stage: | Unreviewed → Accepted |
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Type: | Cleanup/optimization → New feature |
comment:3 by , 4 years ago
Triage Stage: | Accepted → Ready for checkin |
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