Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> It appears on Googling a bit that the erand48() is buggy in that it
> requires the seed to have been initialized with srand48() or it will
> constantly return 0.0.
Huh, and that sends us into an infinite loop? I'll take a look at that.
Even though it's surely nonrandom, it doesn't seem like pathological
behavior of the RNG should wedge us completely.
> So I think just forcing use of ours is the safe way to go.
Agreed, but I'm curious ...
regards, tom lane