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Re: Random number generation, take two

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

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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: 2016-12-05T15:00:10Z
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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.

			regards, tom lane

Commits

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