2010/5/4 Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@commandprompt.com>: > Vincenzo Romano wrote: >> Hi all. >> >> I'm willing to change an BIGINT ID column (actually a SERIAL8) with a >> BIGINT whose valules are (pseudo)random. >> The main objective is to avoid guessability. >> I whish I could also use it as the PK (as it's now) but that's not >> really important now. >> Any hint? > > http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Pseudo_encrypt
That's a nice starting point. I should apply that function twice for each 32-bit chunk of a 64-bit BIGINT and then merge the results into a single BIGINT ... Boring but doable! -- Vincenzo Romano NotOrAnd Information Technologies NON QVIETIS MARIBVS NAVTA PERITVS -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
