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Re: Support getrandom() for pg_strong_random() source

Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>

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From: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
To: Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>
Date: 2025-10-10T07:36:43Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
> On 10 Oct 2025, at 02:11, Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Oct 9, 2025 at 4:53 PM Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Does it mean that we introduce something like pg_fast_random() and
>> packagers can select it as the random number generation function
>> instead of pg_strong_random()? Or can packagers select the function
>> used in pg_strong_random()?
> 
> The latter -- packagers should be able to select the implementation of
> pg_strong_random(). I think pg_fast_random() is likely to be a bad
> abstraction if we don't have more use cases to guide it.

I am very much agreement with this.

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Daniel Gustafsson