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Re: Random number generation, take two

Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>

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From: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2016-12-05T12:07:59Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 8:45 PM, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi> wrote:
> On 11/30/2016 03:22 PM, Michael Paquier wrote:
>> I could live with that. Your patch is not complete though, you need to
>> add pg_strong_random.c into the array @pgportfiles in Mkvcbuild.pm.
>> You also need to remove fortuna.c and random.c from the list of files
>> in $pgcrypto->AddFiles(). After doing so the code is able to compile
>> properly.
>
> Ok, did that, I hope I got it right.

The build works for me. Thanks.
-- 
Michael

Commits

  1. Replace PostmasterRandom() with a stronger source, second attempt.