Re: gen_random_uuid security not explicit in documentation

Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>

From: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
To: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
Cc: rightfold@gmail.com, pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Date: 2017-07-03T09:22:25Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers, pgsql-docs
On 06/23/2017 04:23 AM, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 3:02 AM, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi> wrote:
>> I'm inclined to change gen_random_uuid() to throw an error if the server is
>> built with --disable-strong-random, like gen_random_bytes() does. That way,
>> they would behave the same.
>
> No objections to do that. I guess you don't need a patch. As this is
> new to 10, I have added an open item.

Ok, pushed a fix to do that.

Thanks for bringing this up, Radek!

- Heikki



Commits

  1. Forbid gen_random_uuid() with --disable-strong-random