[postgis-devel] ST_GeneratePoints randomness
    Raúl Marín Rodríguez 
    rmrodriguez at carto.com
       
    Fri Jan 18 12:55:58 PST 2019
    
    
  
> Have one function with a seed...
That would make the function VOLATILE (and cacheable) which is
something that Komzpa wanted to avoid.
> Perhaps there is a use case for both functions?  One that generates a reproducible set of pseudo-random points, and one that generates a different set each time called.
I guess there could be ST_GeneratePoints and
ST_GenerateRandomPoints([optional] seed)
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Raúl Marín Rodríguez
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