Re: How to get ten random records

Don't listen to him. .order_by('?') is the right thing. If you're not sure, install django-debug-toolbar. You'll see that you get "ORDER BY random()".

Also, while .get() will throw an exception if the QuerySet is empty, nothing else will.

On Mar 18, 2013, at 10:46 PM, Mike Dewhirst wrote:

> On 19/03/2013 3:29pm, Christophe Pettus wrote:
>>
>> On Mar 18, 2013, at 9:03 PM, Mike Dewhirst wrote:
>>
>>> No really, I want a maximum of ten random records from the database
>>> (Django 1.4, Postgres 9.1).
>>
>> This is a case where the raw SQL interface might be the right answer:
>> you can just tack an ORDER BY random() clause onto the query.
>
> Thank you kind sir
>
> Cheers
>
> Mike
>
>>
>> -- -- Christophe Pettus xof@thebuild.com
>>
>

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