| From: | Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi> |
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| To: | Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | rightfold(at)gmail(dot)com, pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: gen_random_uuid security not explicit in documentation |
| Date: | 2017-07-03 09:22:25 |
| Message-ID: | 7aff5b9c-a7f2-96cd-0739-d2808cc3508a@iki.fi |
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On 06/23/2017 04:23 AM, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 3:02 AM, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi> wrote:
>> I'm inclined to change gen_random_uuid() to throw an error if the server is
>> built with --disable-strong-random, like gen_random_bytes() does. That way,
>> they would behave the same.
>
> No objections to do that. I guess you don't need a patch. As this is
> new to 10, I have added an open item.
Ok, pushed a fix to do that.
Thanks for bringing this up, Radek!
- Heikki
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