random() function documentation
Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org>
From: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org>
To: pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2022-04-11T18:38:45Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Hi Hackers, I just noticed that the since the random() rewrite¹, the documentation's claim² that it "uses a simple linear congruential algorithm" is no longer accurate (xoroshiro128** is an xorshift variant, which is a linear-feedback shift register algorithm). I don't have a suggestion for the exact wording, since I don't know whether xoroshiro128** qualifies as "simple", or to what level of specificity we want to document the algorithm. - ilmari [1] https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commit;h=3804539e48e794781c6145c7f988f5d507418fa8 [2] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/functions-math.html#FUNCTIONS-MATH-RANDOM-TABLE
Commits
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Doc: update description of random() function.
- d4f109e4a2c0 15.0 landed
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Replace random(), pg_erand48(), etc with a better PRNG API and algorithm.
- 3804539e48e7 15.0 cited