Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Replace PostmasterRandom() with a stronger way of generating ran

On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 10:50 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> The real issue here is whether we are willing to say that
> Postgres simply does not work anymore on machines without standard entropy
> sources.  Doesn't matter whether the user cares about the strength of
> cancel keys, we're just blowing them off.  That seems a bit extreme
> from here.  I think we should be willing to fall back to the old code
> if we can't find a real entropy source.

+1.

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