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Re: pgcrypto seeding problem when ssl=on

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

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Marko Kreen <markokr@gmail.com>
Cc: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>, Postgres Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2013-01-13T22:46:12Z
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Marko Kreen <markokr@gmail.com> writes:
> On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 10:27 PM, Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> wrote:
>> How about instead calling RAND_cleanup() after each backend fork?

> Attached is a patch that adds RAND_cleanup() to fork_process().

I remain unconvinced that this is the best solution.  Anybody else have
an opinion?

			regards, tom lane