| From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)iki(dot)fi>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Replace PostmasterRandom() with a stronger way of generating ran |
| Date: | 2016-10-17 15:02:31 |
| Message-ID: | CA+TgmoZve5mg3EVUuWX9K4yQXKLtMkR214Ov_hhbXvPYvRVj3A@mail.gmail.com |
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On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 10:50 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> The real issue here is whether we are willing to say that
> Postgres simply does not work anymore on machines without standard entropy
> sources. Doesn't matter whether the user cares about the strength of
> cancel keys, we're just blowing them off. That seems a bit extreme
> from here. I think we should be willing to fall back to the old code
> if we can't find a real entropy source.
+1.
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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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