Re: Greetings folks, dumb question maybe?

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 10:09:51AM +0000, Jasen Betts wrote:
> On 2010-05-12, Josh <jgooding@ttitech.net> wrote:
> don't need a function for that one.
>
> INSERT INTO unpart_tbl_test
>  SELECT  GENERATE_SERIES(0,9999999),
>      'teststring data',
>      date '1995-01-01' +(floor(random()*36520)::int % 3652);

...and if you'd rather it were a function anyway, do this:

CREATE FUNCTION populate_table() RETURNS VOID AS $$   INSERT INTO unpart_tbl_test     SELECT
GENERATE_SERIES(0,9999999),       'teststring data',        date '1995-01-01' +(floor(random()*36520)::int % 3652); 
$$ LANGUAGE SQL;

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