Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 5:25 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> Portability, or rather lack of it. What about using erand48, which we
>> already have a dependency on (and substitute code for)?
> Neither our implementation nor glibc's appears to be thread-safe,
I think you're confusing srand48 with erand48. The latter relies on a
caller-supplied state value, so if it's not thread-safe the caller has
only itself to blame.
regards, tom lane