pgsql: Make sampler_random_fract() actually obey its API contract. - Mailing list pgsql-committers

From Tom Lane
Subject pgsql: Make sampler_random_fract() actually obey its API contract.
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Msg-id E1ZAQAo-0006Gi-02@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Make sampler_random_fract() actually obey its API contract.

This function is documented to return a value in the range (0,1),
which is what its predecessor anl_random_fract() did.  However, the
new version depends on pg_erand48() which returns a value in [0,1).
The possibility of returning zero creates hazards of division by zero
or trying to compute log(0) at some call sites, and it might well
break third-party modules using anl_random_fract() too.  So let's
change it to never return zero.  Spotted by Coverity.

Michael Paquier, cosmetically adjusted by me

Branch
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REL9_5_STABLE

Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/cd7030ff085f5c378e837b392cb719cf23df9d0b

Modified Files
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src/backend/utils/misc/sampling.c |    9 ++++++++-
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)


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