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Re: Bloom index

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

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru>
Cc: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Pgsql Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-01-18T14:49:47Z
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Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru> writes:
>> 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.

That is true on some platforms, but on others rand() is very bad.

			regards, tom lane