Best way to select random rows PostgreSQL

Question

I want a random selection of rows in PostgreSQL, I tried this:

select * from table where random() < 0.01;

But some other recommend this:

Answer 1

I know I'm a little late to the party, but I just found this awesome tool called pg_sample:

pg_sample - extract a small, sample dataset from a larger PostgreSQL database while maintaining referential integrity.

I tried this with a 350M rows database and it was really fast, don't know about the randomness.

./pg_sample --limit="small_table = *" --limit="large_table = 100000" -U postgres source_db | psql -U postgres target_db