Generate random String in PostgreSQL

Question

I'm using this SQL query to generate random value in PostgreSQL

chr(ascii('B') + (random() * 25)::integer)

How I can generate 15 characters random String using the same query?

Solution 1

Another solution that's pretty easy to read (perf should be reasonable, but no benchmarks were performed):

select substr(md5(random()::text), 0, 25);

Could be uppercased if you prefer:

select upper(substr(md5(random()::text), 0, 25));

Solution 2

Here is my contrib

postgres=# SELECT array_to_string(array(select substr('ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789',((random()*(36-1)+1)::integer),1) from generate_series(1,50)),'');
                  array_to_string                   
----------------------------------------------------
 4XOS6TQG5JORLF3D1RPXUWR2FQKON9HIXV0UGH0CQFT1LN5D4L
(1 row)

It lets you specify the set of allowed characters and the length of the string.

Solution 3

This will give you a random word of length 15 consisting of the letters configured in the source values constant

select
  string_agg(substr(characters, (random() * length(characters) + 1)::integer, 1), '') as random_word
from (values('ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789')) as symbols(characters)
  -- length of word
  join generate_series(1, 15) on 1 = 1

EDIT: to obtain multiple random words you can use the following:

with symbols(characters) as (VALUES ('ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789'))
select string_agg(substr(characters, (random() * length(characters) + 1) :: INTEGER, 1), '')
from symbols
join generate_series(1,8) as word(chr_idx) on 1 = 1 -- word length
join generate_series(1,10000) as words(idx) on 1 = 1 -- # of words
group by idx

Solution 4

Yes can do this by single query also but if you want every char should be separate according to range then above is solution

SELECT array_to_string(ARRAY(
            SELECT chr((ascii('B') + round(random() * 25)) :: integer) 
            FROM generate_series(1,15)), 
             '');

Solution 5

Here is the idea:

select (chr(ascii('B') + (random() * 25)::integer) ||
        chr(ascii('B') + (random() * 25)::integer) ||
        chr(ascii('B') + (random() * 25)::integer) ||
        chr(ascii('B') + (random() * 25)::integer) ||
        chr(ascii('B') + (random() * 25)::integer) ||
        chr(ascii('B') + (random() * 25)::integer) ||
        chr(ascii('B') + (random() * 25)::integer) ||
        chr(ascii('B') + (random() * 25)::integer) ||
        chr(ascii('B') + (random() * 25)::integer) ||
        chr(ascii('B') + (random() * 25)::integer) ||
        chr(ascii('B') + (random() * 25)::integer) ||
        chr(ascii('B') + (random() * 25)::integer) ||
        chr(ascii('B') + (random() * 25)::integer) ||
        chr(ascii('B') + (random() * 25)::integer) ||
        chr(ascii('B') + (random() * 25)::integer) 
       ) as Random15

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