Waiting for PostgreSQL 16 – Invent random_normal() to provide normally-distributed random numbers.

On 9th of January 2023, Tom Lane committed patch:

Invent random_normal() to provide normally-distributed random numbers.
 
There is already a version of this in contrib/tablefunc, but it
seems sufficiently widely useful to justify having it in core.
 
Paul Ramsey
 
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACowWR0DqHAvOKUCNxTrASFkWsDLqKMd6WiXvVvaWg4pV1BMnQ@mail.gmail.com

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