Removing --disable-strong-random from the code - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Michael Paquier
Subject Removing --disable-strong-random from the code
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Msg-id 20181230063219.GG608@paquier.xyz
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Responses Re: Removing --disable-strong-random from the code  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Hi all

As mentioned here, there has been a discussion about $subject and the
fact that it may be rather useless:
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/21150.1546010167@sss.pgh.pa.us

--disable-strong-random is also untested in the buildfarm.

Attached is a patch to clean up the code, which removes all the code
specific to random generation for backends (no more shmem code paths
and such), as well as the pg_frontend_random() and
pg_backend_random().  Thoughts or opinions?

Thanks,
--
Michael

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