Christopher Sawtell <csawtell@xtra.co.nz> writes:
> How can this happen?
> chris=# select name from boys_names where
> boys_names.number=(random()*225+1)::int4;
> name
> --------
> Fred
> Gunnar
> Manuel
> Rainer
> (4 rows)
Er, what's your complaint exactly? It's not obvious to me that
there's anything wrong here. You seem to have gotten random
matches on four rows --- if that's ridiculously too low (or too
high) you'd better explain why you think so.
regards, tom lane