Re: Still wondering about random numbers...

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

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "Joe Conway" <joseph.conway@home.com>
Cc: "Dr. Evil" <drevil@sidereal.kz>, pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Date: 2001-08-07T16:00:56Z
Lists: pgsql-general
"Joe Conway" <joseph.conway@home.com> writes:
> Looks like plain old C library random numbers. If you want to use
> /dev/random or /dev/urandom, best bet would be to write your own C function.
> You should also check through the contrib stuff -- I don't recall seeing RNG
> functions in there,

I don't see any in there either, but this seems like a fine candidate for
a contrib item.  I doubt we'd accept it into the mainstream for lack of
portability, but as a contrib item, why not?

			regards, tom lane