[erlang-questions] Mnesia: select random record

[datacompboy]

Hello, all!

I have asked @trapexit, but think there will wider discussion...

How effective select an random record from mnesia table? 
I have table with user statuses: 
{us, id, status}. 
I have additional index on status field. 
And I need to get any random record with status=X. 

Any easy and fast way? 
Or only have tables for every status, and then: 
Table=list_to_atom("status"++"_"++X), 
X=mnesia:table_size(Table), 
record=mnesia_geti(Table, random:uniform(X)) 
?

There about 4-5 (and may be extended to 10-12 later) of statuses, and about 1000 IDs, that query called often (about 10-30 times per second), so I can left just read on whole table, but question intersting in general.
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