-- -- This example shows why the shuffling method is usefull with foreign keys -- BEGIN; CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS anon CASCADE; CREATE TABLE city ( id SERIAL, name TEXT PRIMARY KEY ); INSERT INTO city VALUES (1,'Paris'), (2,'London'), (3,'Sidney'); CREATE TABLE weather ( id SERIAL, fk_city_name TEXT references city(name), date_measurement DATE, temperature INT, precipitation REAL ); INSERT INTO weather VALUES ( 1, 'Paris', '2019-01-17', 6, 0.0 ), ( 2, 'Paris', '2019-01-18', 2, 3.0 ), ( 3, 'Paris', '2019-01-19', 0, 4.4 ), ( 4, 'Paris', '2019-01-20', 5, 0.0 ), ( 11, 'London', '2019-01-17', 2, 7.0 ), ( 12, 'London', '2019-01-18', 0, 2.3 ), ( 13, 'London', '2019-01-19', 1, 2.4 ), ( 14, 'London', '2019-01-20', 1, 8.8 ), ( 21, 'Sidney', '2019-01-17', 20, 0.0 ), ( 22, 'Sidney', '2019-01-18', 25, 0.0 ), ( 23, 'Sidney', '2019-01-19', 20, 0.0 ), ( 24, 'Sidney', '2019-01-20', 23, 0.0 ) ; SELECT * FROM weather ORDER BY id; SELECT anon.shuffle_column('weather','fk_city_name','id'); SELECT * FROM weather ORDER BY id; -- Clean up ROLLBACK;