setseed accepts bad seeds - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Kris Jurka
Subject setseed accepts bad seeds
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Msg-id Pine.BSO.4.64.0704110423170.13329@leary.csoft.net
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Responses Re: setseed accepts bad seeds
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Why doesn't setseed complain when given a seed value outside of its
expected range?  The documentation claims that 0 -> 1 should be used,
but shouldn't it actually be -1 -> 1 to get the full range of the seed?
If passed a value outside this range you always get the same value which
isn't going to produce a good random number stream.

Kris Jurka

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