Hello Tom,
> Just FTR, I strongly object to your removal of process-startup srandom()
> calls.
Ok. The point of the patch is to replace and unify the postgres underlying
PRNG, so there was some logic behind this removal.
> Those are not only setting the seed for our own use, but also ensuring
> that things like random() calls within PL functions or other libraries
> aren't 100% predictable.
Sure, they shouldn't be predictable.
Attached v15 also does call srandom if it is there, and fixes yet another
remaining random call.
--
Fabien.
