Re: BUG #12589: Poor randomness from random() with some seeds; poor resolution - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Pedro Gimeno
Subject Re: BUG #12589: Poor randomness from random() with some seeds; poor resolution
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Msg-id 54BDEE5A.5040008@personal.formauri.es
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In response to Re: BUG #12589: Poor randomness from random() with some seeds; poor resolution  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: BUG #12589: Poor randomness from random() with some seeds; poor resolution  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote, On 2015-01-20 03:59:
>     The characteristics of the values returned by random() depend on
>     the system implementation.
>
> That seems to me to be a sufficient "caveat".

That caveat is not in the 9.1 manual which is the version I reported
this issue against.

Can it be backported to the versions of the manual where it applies?

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