Re: Removing --disable-strong-random from the code

On Sun, Dec 30, 2018 at 01:45:42AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Hah, I was just about to work on that myself --- glad I didn't get
> to it quite yet. A couple of thoughts:
>
> 1. Surely there's documentation about --disable-strong-random
> to clean up too?

Oops, I forgot to grep on this one. Removed from my tree.

> 2. I wonder whether it's worth adding this to port.h:
>
> extern bool pg_strong_random(void *buf, size_t len);
> +/* pg_backend_random used to be a wrapper for pg_strong_random */
> +#define pg_backend_random pg_strong_random
>
> to prevent unnecessary breakage in extensions that might be depending
> on pg_backend_random.

Sure, that makes sense. Added.

> 3. Didn't look, but the MSVC build code might need a tweak too
> now that pg_strong_random.o is built-always rather than conditional?

There is nothing needed here as pg_strong_random.c has always been
included into @pgportfiles as we assumed that Windows would always
have a random source.
--
Michael