History of 2026-03-14 Selecting a sample of a PostgreSQL table

2026-03-14
10:40 UTC Revision 1 . . . . mborkToday I have a nice SQL tip about sampling tables in SQL. (I’m writing about PostgreSQL as usual but this applies to other databases, too, since this feature is in the SQL standard.) Imagine you have a large table and you want to get a general feeling about what its contents look like.