| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | "Joe Conway" <joseph(dot)conway(at)home(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "Dr(dot) Evil" <drevil(at)sidereal(dot)kz>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Still wondering about random numbers... |
| Date: | 2001-08-07 16:00:56 |
| Message-ID: | 7823.997200056@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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"Joe Conway" <joseph(dot)conway(at)home(dot)com> writes:
> Looks like plain old C library random numbers. If you want to use
> /dev/random or /dev/urandom, best bet would be to write your own C function.
> You should also check through the contrib stuff -- I don't recall seeing RNG
> functions in there,
I don't see any in there either, but this seems like a fine candidate for
a contrib item. I doubt we'd accept it into the mainstream for lack of
portability, but as a contrib item, why not?
regards, tom lane
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