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Re: [PATCH] random_normal function

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "David E. Wheeler" <david@justatheory.com>
Cc: Andrey Lepikhov <a.lepikhov@postgrespro.ru>, Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>, Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Paul Ramsey <pramsey@cleverelephant.ca>
Date: 2025-10-04T17:47:53Z
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  1. Round off random_normal() test results one more decimal place.

  2. Remove pg_regress' never-documented "ignore" feature.

  3. Upgrade the random.sql regression test.

  4. Invent random_normal() to provide normally-distributed random numbers.

"David E. Wheeler" <david@justatheory.com> writes:
> Hello old thread.
> On Jan 19, 2023, at 01:01, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> I think "ignore:" was a kluge we put in twenty-plus years ago when our
>> testing standards were a lot lower, and it's way past time we got
>> rid of it.

> I fixed the regex (removed any detection of pre-9.0 matching, in fact), so all good there. But I wanted to point out that `ignore:` is documented in the wiki[1], so other extensions may use it. If no one else notices perhaps it’s not a big deal, but I want to call out that pg_regress features, “documented” or not, might be used outside the core.

I didn't know about that page, but I'm happy to go remove its
mention of "ignore:" ...

			regards, tom lane