Re: Bloom index

From: Teodor Sigaev <teodor(at)sigaev(dot)ru>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pgsql Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Bloom index
Date: 2010-01-18 12:09:40
Message-ID: 4B544F84.70902@sigaev.ru
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> Yeah, (1) rand isn't a good random number generator and (2) fooling with

I tested rand() and random() generator and results was close to the same, and
rand() was even slightly better.

> the main random number sequence is user-unfriendly. If you need a
That's really easy to fix.

> private source of random numbers you might base it on erand48 like geqo
> has done.
Thank you to the point.

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