Re: Random strings

Joe Conway writes:

> Per the discussion yesterday, here's a patch. There are two versions of
> essentially the same function. They both take an int as the number of
> requested random bytes, and generate a random binary string of the requested
> length from /dev/urandom. The first one (randomstr_hex) converts the binary
> to hex and returns it as text, and the other (randomstr_bytea) does the
> needed escaping of special characters and returns bytea.

Perhaps one of these returning bytea would be enough and you can use
the new encode functions to convert them to a format of choice.  Also, why
aren't you using /dev/random?

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net   http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter