Re: Support getrandom() for pg_strong_random() source - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

> On 10 Oct 2025, at 02:11, Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Oct 9, 2025 at 4:53 PM Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Does it mean that we introduce something like pg_fast_random() and
>> packagers can select it as the random number generation function
>> instead of pg_strong_random()? Or can packagers select the function
>> used in pg_strong_random()?
>
> The latter -- packagers should be able to select the implementation of
> pg_strong_random(). I think pg_fast_random() is likely to be a bad
> abstraction if we don't have more use cases to guide it.

I am very much agreement with this.

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Daniel Gustafsson