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authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2021-11-28 21:32:36 -0500
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2021-11-28 21:33:07 -0500
commit3804539e48e794781c6145c7f988f5d507418fa8 (patch)
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parentf44ceb46ec2d8da48f6e145bf462d5620c25e079 (diff)
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Replace random(), pg_erand48(), etc with a better PRNG API and algorithm.
Standardize on xoroshiro128** as our basic PRNG algorithm, eliminating a bunch of platform dependencies as well as fundamentally-obsolete PRNG code. In addition, this API replacement will ease replacing the algorithm again in future, should that become necessary. xoroshiro128** is a few percent slower than the drand48 family, but it can produce full-width 64-bit random values not only 48-bit, and it should be much more trustworthy. It's likely to be noticeably faster than the platform's random(), depending on which platform you are thinking about; and we can have non-global state vectors easily, unlike with random(). It is not cryptographically strong, but neither are the functions it replaces. Fabien Coelho, reviewed by Dean Rasheed, Aleksander Alekseev, and myself Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2105241211230.165418@pseudo
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/file/fd.c b/src/backend/storage/file/fd.c
index cb1a8dd34f2..263057841dd 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/file/fd.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/file/fd.c
@@ -92,6 +92,7 @@
#include "catalog/pg_tablespace.h"
#include "common/file_perm.h"
#include "common/file_utils.h"
+#include "common/pg_prng.h"
#include "miscadmin.h"
#include "pgstat.h"
#include "port/pg_iovec.h"
@@ -2939,7 +2940,8 @@ SetTempTablespaces(Oid *tableSpaces, int numSpaces)
* available tablespaces.
*/
if (numSpaces > 1)
- nextTempTableSpace = random() % numSpaces;
+ nextTempTableSpace = pg_prng_uint64_range(&pg_global_prng_state,
+ 0, numSpaces - 1);
else
nextTempTableSpace = 0;
}