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Re: PG 10: could not generate random cancel key

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2018-07-17T17:27:48Z
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On 2018-Jul-17, Robert Haas wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 8:33 AM, Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com> wrote:
> > if (RAND_status() == 0)
> >     RAND_poll();
> 
> Looks like a recipe for an infinite loop.  At least, I think we ought
> to have a CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS() in that loop.

What loop?

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Commits

  1. Guard against rare RAND_bytes() failures in pg_strong_random().