Re: Regression tests versus the buildfarm environment

"Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov> writes:
> Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> BTW, I don't know why anyone would think that "a random number"
>> would offer any advantage here. I'd use the postmaster PID, which
>> is guaranteed to be unique across the space that you're worried
>> about.

> Well, in the post I cited, it was you who argued that the PID was a
> bad choice, suggested a random number, and stated "That would have a
> substantially lower collision probability than PID, if the number
> generation process were well designed; and it wouldn't risk exposing
> anything sensitive in the ping response."

Hmm. I don't remember why we'd think that the postmaster PID was
sensitive information ... but if you take that as true, then yeah
it couldn't be included in a pg_ping response.

regards, tom lane