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Re: Bloom index

Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru>

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From: Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Pgsql Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-01-18T12:09:40Z
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> Yeah, (1) rand isn't a good random number generator and (2) fooling with

I tested rand() and random() generator and results was close to the same, and 
rand() was even slightly better.

> the main random number sequence is user-unfriendly.  If you need a
That's really easy to fix.

> private source of random numbers you might base it on erand48 like geqo
> has done.
Thank you to the point.

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