| From: | "Arnau Rebassa" <arebassa(at)hotmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Random not so random |
| Date: | 2004-10-04 07:34:45 |
| Message-ID: | BAY15-F40onKcDnUiy40001f47a@hotmail.com |
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Hi Greg,
>What OS is this? Postgres is just using your OS's random()/srandom() calls.
>On
>some platforms these may be poorly implemented and not very random.
I'm using a debian linux as OS with a 2.4 kernel running on it.
>Incidentally, are you reconnecting every time or is it that multiple calls
>in
>a single session are returning the same record?
I'm reconnecting each time I want to retrieve a message. The idea is I
have a lilbrary of messages and I want to pick one of it randomly. I don't
know if there is the possibility to seed the random number generator
manually, anybody knows it?
Thanks to all
--
Arnau
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