Re: [Pgbuildfarm-members] CREATE FUNCTION hang on test machine polecat on HEAD

Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@gmail.com>

From: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@gmail.com>

To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

Cc: Alex Hunsaker <badalex@gmail.com>, Robert Creager <Robert.Creager@oracle.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2011-06-07T17:50:18Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
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> On 06/07/2011 01:18 PM, Alex Hunsaker wrote:
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>> I don't suppose /dev/urandom blocks on OS X?  Granted, I may have
>> missed something in translation with the macro fest that is perl...
>
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> I wondered if we were possibly exhausting some entropy pool. It seems like
> this would be just such a bad bug that it would be amazing if we were the
> first to trip up on it. But I guess you never know.

/dev/urandom is the one that's supposed to be "unblocking" (that's
what the "u" is for).

Supposedly, /dev/random and /dev/urandom behave identically on OS-X,
using Yarrow for RNG.  It shouldn't be blocking.

http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man4/urandom.4.html
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