Re: Random number generation, take two

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

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2016-12-06T01:31:28Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
I wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi> writes:
>> Tom: I expect pademelon to fail at the configure step, complaining that 
>> "no source of strong random numbers was found". Let's wait for one 
>> cycle, to verify that it does fail like that. After that, can you add 
>> the --disable-strong-random flag to fix it, please?

> Roger, I'll deal with that later today.

Results seem to be as expected:

http://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=pademelon&dt=2016-12-05%2016%3A14%3A10

http://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=pademelon&dt=2016-12-05%2022%3A19%3A42

			regards, tom lane


Commits

  1. Replace PostmasterRandom() with a stronger source, second attempt.