On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 05:46:02PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov> writes:
> > For a moment it seemed logical to suggest a session GUC for the seed,
> > so if you got a bad plan you could keep rolling the dice until you got
> > one you liked; but my right-brain kept sending shivers down my spine
> > to suggest just how uncomfortable it was with that idea....
>
> If memory serves, we actually had exactly that at some point. But I
> think the reason it got taken out was that it interfered with the
> behavior of the random() function for everything else. We'd have to
> give GEQO its own private random number generator.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
A separate random number generator for GECO make a lot of sense.
Cheers,
Ken