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

From: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>
Subject: Re: Removing --disable-strong-random from the code
Date: 2018-12-30 14:37:40
Message-ID: 20181230143740.GB2734@paquier.xyz
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On Sun, Dec 30, 2018 at 04:15:49PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> 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.

And attached is an updated patch with all those fixes included. Any
thoughts or opinions?
--
Michael

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