Still wondering about random numbers...

From: "Dr(dot) Evil" <drevil(at)sidereal(dot)kz>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Still wondering about random numbers...
Date: 2001-08-07 09:01:06
Message-ID: 20010807090106.980.qmail@sidereal.kz
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I am running on OpenBSD and Linux, both of which have
cryptographic-quality RNGs built in. When I call RANDOM() in PG, do I
get the old C library random numbers, which are not very random, or do
I get high-quality random numbers from the crypto-RNG that's built in?
Any sugestions for getting high-quality random numbers?

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