| From: | Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)fourpalms(dot)org> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Joe Conway <joseph(dot)conway(at)home(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "Dr(dot) Evil" <drevil(at)sidereal(dot)kz>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Still wondering about random numbers... |
| Date: | 2001-08-07 16:36:23 |
| Message-ID: | 3B701907.6DBE678C@fourpalms.org |
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> > Looks like plain old C library random numbers. If you want to use
> > /dev/random or /dev/urandom, best bet would be to write your own C function.
> > You should also check through the contrib stuff -- I don't recall seeing RNG
> > functions in there,
> I don't see any in there either, but this seems like a fine candidate for
> a contrib item. I doubt we'd accept it into the mainstream for lack of
> portability, but as a contrib item, why not?
configure is our friend. A better random number generator is always
welcome imho, and if it can be reliably supported through autoconf then
it would stand a chance to be included in the main tree. Especially
since the usage of random() seems to be very isolated in the code.
contrib/ is always a good first step though...
- Thomas
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