Re: Move OpenSSL random under USE_OPENSSL_RANDOM

Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
To: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Cc: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2020-11-19T20:49:05Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 12:04 PM Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 11:00:40AM +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > I'm thinking the code might get a lot cleaner if we just make a single
> > set of ifdefs, even if that means repeating the function header. In
> > theory we could put them in different *.c files as well, but that
> > seems overkill given how tiny they are.
>
> If you reorganize the code this way, I think that make coverage
> (genhtml mainly) would complain because the same function is defined
> multiple times.  I have fallen in this trap recently, with 2771fcee.

Ugh, that's pretty terrible.

I guess the only way around that is then to split it up into separate
files. And while I think this way makes the code a lot easier to read,
and thereby safer, I'm not sure it's worth quite *that*.

Or do you know of some other way to get around that?

-- 
 Magnus Hagander
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Commits

  1. Remove ability to independently select random number generator

  2. Add pg_strong_random_init function to initialize random number generator