Re: Bloom index
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>
Cc: Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Pgsql Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-01-18T02:44:07Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> writes: > The only thing that jumps out at me from the code itself is the use of > rand() and srand() which seems unacceptable. Yeah, (1) rand isn't a good random number generator and (2) fooling with the main random number sequence is user-unfriendly. If you need a private source of random numbers you might base it on erand48 like geqo has done. regards, tom lane