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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: pgsql: Replace random(), pg_erand48(), etc with a better PRNG API and a
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Msg-id 1140657.1638161878@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: pgsql: Replace random(), pg_erand48(), etc with a better PRNG API and a  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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I wrote:
> ... If so, we could perhaps
> fix it by doing

> #ifdef FRONTEND
> extern pg_prng_state pg_global_prng_state;
> #else
> extern PGDLLIMPORT pg_prng_state pg_global_prng_state;
> #endif

Ah, I now see the same hack being used in keywords.h and pg_bitutils.h,
so I'll go do that.  (Maybe we should invent a variant of PGDLLIMPORT
that can make this happen without as much code duplication?)

            regards, tom lane

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