[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #18836: ORDER BY RAND() is slow

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#18836: ORDER BY RAND() is slow
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 Reporter:  scribu                               |       Owner:  pbearne
     Type:  enhancement                          |      Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal                               |   Milestone:  6.9
Component:  Query                                |     Version:
 Severity:  minor                                |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-testing has-unit-tests has-    |     Focuses:
  patch                                          |  performance
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Changes (by audrasjb):

 * milestone:  6.8 => 6.9


Comment:

 As per today's bug scrub: It's a bit late in the release cycle to
 introduce Query/DB changes, so I'm moving it to 6.9 with the `early`
 keyword.

 ''Please note that there is a WPCS issue in the current PR.
 ''

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