Re: BUG #12589: Poor randomness from random() with some seeds; poor resolution

From: Pedro Gimeno <pgsql-004(at)personal(dot)formauri(dot)es>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: BUG #12589: Poor randomness from random() with some seeds; poor resolution
Date: 2015-01-20 05:57:46
Message-ID: 54BDEE5A.5040008@personal.formauri.es
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Tom Lane wrote, On 2015-01-20 03:59:
> The characteristics of the values returned by random() depend on
> the system implementation.
>
> That seems to me to be a sufficient "caveat".

That caveat is not in the 9.1 manual which is the version I reported
this issue against.

Can it be backported to the versions of the manual where it applies?

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